codify

English edit

From code +‎ -ify.

(General American) enPR: kŏdˈ -ĭ-fīˌ, kōˈ -dĭ-fīˌ, IPA^(key): /ˈ kɑd.ɪˌfaɪ/, /ˈ koʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɑdɪfaɪ, -oʊdɪfaɪ
(Received Pronunciation) enPR: kōˈ -dĭ-fīˌ, IPA^(key): /ˈ kəʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -əʊdɪfaɪ

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

To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.
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.”
To enact as an official rule or law.

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)
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)