codex
English
Etymology
From Latin cōdex, variant spelling of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany).
Pronunciation
- enPR: kōʹdĕks
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- Hyphenation: co‧dex
Noun
codex (plural codices or codexes)
- An early manuscript book.
- A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
- An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
Quotations
- See codexes
Related terms
- caudex (botany)
- code
- codifier
- codify
- codification
- stemma codicum
Translations
early book
|
bound book
References
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
codex m (plural codex)
- codex (all senses).
Further reading
- “codex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.deks/, [ˈkoːd̪ɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.deks/, [ˈkɔːd̪eks]
Noun
cōdex m (genitive cōdicis); third declension
- Alternative form of caudex (“tree trunk; book, notebook”)
- c 49 AD, Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life), Penguin, →ISBN, page 21:
- That was Claudius, who for this reason was called Caudex because a structure linking several wooden planks was called in antiquity a caudex. Hence too the Law Tables are called codices, and even today the boats which carry provisions up the Tiber are called by the old-fashioned name codicariae.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōdex | cōdicēs |
Genitive | cōdicis | cōdicum |
Dative | cōdicī | cōdicibus |
Accusative | cōdicem | cōdicēs |
Ablative | cōdice | cōdicibus |
Vocative | cōdex | cōdicēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: kode, kodeks
- Albanian: kod, kodik
- Basque: kode
- Bulgarian: код (kod), кодекс (kodeks)
- Catalan: codi, còdex
- Czech: kód, kodex
- Danish: kode, kodeks
- Dutch: code, codex
- English: code, codex
- Esperanto: kodo, kodekso
- Estonian: kood, koodeks
- Finnish: koodi, koodeksi
- French: code, codex
- Galician: código, códice
- German: Kode, Kodex
- Hungarian: kód, kódex
- Ido: kodo, kodexo
References
- “codex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “codex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- codex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
- account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
- “codex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- codex in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “codex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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