codify

English

Etymology

From code +‎ -ify.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: kŏdˈ-ĭ-fīˌ, kōˈ-dĭ-fīˌ, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑd.ɪˌfaɪ/, /ˈkoʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑdɪfaɪ, -oʊdɪfaɪ
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kōˈ-dĭ-fīˌ, IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/

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  • Rhymes: -əʊdɪfaɪ

Verb

codify (third-person singular simple present codifies, present participle codifying, simple past and past participle codified)

1. To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

   The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.

2. To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “ near-aissance.”

3. To enact as an official rule or law.

Synonyms

• inscripturate
• systematize
• systematise

Derived terms

• codifiability
• codifiable
• codification
• codifier
• decodify
• geocodify
• miscodify
• noncodified
• recodification
• recodify
• uncodifiable
• uncodify
• unicodification

 

Related terms

• code
• codex

Translations

reduce to a code

• Bulgarian: кодирам (bg) (kodiram)
• Catalan: codificar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 編成法典／编成法典 (biānchéng fǎdiǎn), 使法律成文化 (shǐ fǎlǜ chéngwénhuà), 法典化 (fǎdiǎnhuà)

• Czech: kodifikovat
• Finnish: kodifioida, koontaa (lait)
• French: codifier (fr)
• German: kodifizieren (de)
• Greek: κωδικοποιώ (el) (kodikopoió)
• Japanese: 成文化する (せいぶんかする, seibunka suru)
• Polish: kodyfikować
• Portuguese: codificar (pt)
• Romanian: codifica (ro)
• Russian: кодифици́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kodificírovatʹ), зашифро́вывать (ru) impf (zašifróvyvatʹ), зашифрова́ть (ru) pf (zašifrovátʹ)
• Spanish: codificar (es)