codex
English
Etymology
From Latin cōdex, variant spelling of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany).
Pronunciation
- enPR: kōʹdĕks
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊdɛks/[1]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊ.dɛks/
- 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
References
- “codex”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.dɛks/
Further reading
- “codex” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.deks/, [ˈkoː.dɛks]
Noun
cōdex m (genitive cōdicis); third declension
- Alternative form of caudex (“tree trunk; book, notebook”)
Inflection
Third declension.
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
- Czech: kód, kodex
- Danish: kode, kodeks
- Dutch: code, codex
- English: code, codex
- Esperanto: kodo, kodekso
- Estonian: kood, koodeks
- Finnish: koodi, koodeksi
- French: code, codex
- 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, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, 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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