codex

See also: Codex and códex

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: kōʹdĕks
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊdɛks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊdɛks/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• Hyphenation: co‧dex
• Rhymes: -ɛks
• Homophone: codecs

Noun

codex (plural codices or codexes)

1. An early manuscript book.
2. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
   • 2022 February 15, Margalit Fox, “Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

Quotations

• See codexes

Related terms

• caudex (botany)
• code
• codicology
• codify, codification, codifier
• stemma codicum

 

Translations

early book

• Arabic: مَخْطُوطَة f (maḵṭūṭa)
• Catalan: còdex (ca) m
• Classical Nahuatl: āmoxtli
• Esperanto: kodekso
• French: codex (fr) m
• Greek: κώδικας (el) m (kódikas), σωμάτιο (el) n (somátio)
• Hungarian: kódex (hu)
• Italian: codice (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pirtûk (ku)

• Nahuatl: amoxtli (nah)
• Polish: kodeks (pl) m
• Portuguese: códice (pt) m
• Russian: ко́декс (ru) m (kódeks)
• Spanish: códice (es) m
• Turkish: mahtuta, tedvin (tr)

bound book

• Greek: κώδικας (el) m (kódikas)
• Hebrew: קוֹדֶקְס (he) m (kodeks)
• Japanese: 書誌 (ja) (しょし, shoshi)
• Turkish: kodeks (tr), tedvin (tr), mahtuta

official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients

• Hungarian: (állami) gyógyszerkönyv

See also

an official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients

• dispensatory
• formulary
• pharmacopoeia

 

Anagrams

• coxed

French

Etymology

From Latin cōdex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.dɛks/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

codex m (plural codex)

1. codex (all senses)

Further reading

• “codex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.deks/, [ˈkoːd̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.deks/, [ˈkɔːd̪eks]

Noun

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.

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

• Codex Argenteus
• cōdicillus

Descendants

Inherited:

• Romansch: cudesch, cudisch, codesch

Early borrowings:

• → Catalan: codi
• → French: code (see there for further descendants)
• → Galician: código
• → Old Italian: codico
• → Portuguese: código
• → Spanish: código
• → Turkish: kütük

Later borrowings:

• → Afrikaans: kodeks
• → Albanian: kodik
• → Bulgarian: кодекс (kodeks)
• → Catalan: còdex
• → Czech: kodex
• → Danish: kodeks
• → Dutch: codex
• → English: codex
• → Esperanto: kodekso
• → Estonian: koodeks
• → Finnish: koodeksi
• → French: codex
• → Galician: códice
• → German: Kodex
• → Hebrew: קודקס
• → Hungarian: kódex
• → Ido: kodexo
• → Italian: codice
• → Lithuanian: kodeksas
• → Norwegian: kodeks
• → Occitan: codèx
• → Polish: kodeks
• → Portuguese: códex, códice
• → Romanian: codex, codice
• → Russian: ко́декс (kódeks)
• → Serbo-Croatian: кодекс
• → Sicilian: cùdici
• → Slovak: kódex
• → Spanish: códice
• → Swedish: kodex
• → Ukrainian: кодекс (kodeks)
• → Venetian: codexe

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^[2], 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], 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

Romanian

Noun

codex n (plural codexuri)

1. Alternative form of codice

Declension

Declension of codex

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) codex	codexul	(niște) codexuri	codexurile
genitive/dative	(unui) codex	codexului	(unor) codexuri	codexurilor
vocative	codexule		codexurilor