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codex

See also: Codex and códex

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.

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codex (plural codices or codexes)

  1. An early manuscript book, especially one bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
    • 1770, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, A journey from London to Genoa, through England, Portugal, Spain, and France, page 62:
      Only eleven codexes form the division that is intitled CHRISTIAN I.
    • 1898, Bella Duffy, The Tuscan Republics (Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Lucca) with Genoa, page 335:
      To discover and possess Greek codexes then became the ambition of every cultured person
    • 1909, George Philip Krapp, Modern English: Its Growth and Present Use, page 26:
      The great body of Old English poetry is preserved in three volumes, or codexes, of miscellaneous content
    • 1996, Gregory Maguire with Douglas Smith, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, page 266:
      Sarima drew her robes about her, and traced a pattern in the cold dust on a nearby stack of codexes.
    • 2008, Brother Zagreus Mike Luoma, Neo-gnosis, page 96:
      We're still learning about this cache of codexes, and one thing we've learned is that they aren't all "Gnostic" in character.
    • 2009 April 3, Edward Rothstein, “The Cosmos, Surveyed”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
      But by the time we reach that telescope and the imaginative gallery it introduces, we have seen things even more remarkable: ornately decorated quadrants of enameled brass, metal calipers, arcane charts, minutely inscribed maps, spheres within spheres like compass roses from other worlds, codexes and manuscripts, cylinders, dials, rings, rods and boxes.
    • 2022 February 15, Margalit Fox, “Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 July 2022:
      From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility. The progenitor of the modern bound book, the codex gradually supplanted the scroll, a medium inimical to the indexer’s art.
  2. (pharmacology) An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
    Synonym: pharmacopoeia
    the French codex

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See also

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an official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients

References

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  1. ^ “codex”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Etymology

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From Latin cōdex.

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codex m (invariable)

  1. codex (all senses)

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Latin

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Etymology

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    Originally an alternative form of caudex, showing 'rustic' monophthongization of /au̯/ to /oː/.

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    Noun

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    cōdex m (genitive cōdicis); third declension

    1. tree trunk; book, notebook
      • c. 49 CE, Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) (in English), 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.

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    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative cōdex cōdicēs
    genitive cōdicis cōdicum
    dative cōdicī cōdicibus
    accusative cōdicem cōdicēs
    ablative cōdice cōdicibus
    vocative cōdex cōdicēs

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    Inherited:

    • Romansh: cudesch, cudisch, codesch

    Early borrowings:

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    References

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    • “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, 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[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[4], 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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    Noun

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    codex n (plural codexuri)

    1. alternative form of codice

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    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative codex codexul codexuri codexurile
    genitive-dative codex codexului codexuri codexurilor
    vocative codexule codexurilor
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