codex
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: kōʹdĕks
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊdɛks/[1]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊdɛks/
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- Hyphenation: co‧dex
- Rhymes: -ɛks
- Homophone: codecs
Noun edit
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.
- 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.
- An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
Quotations edit
- See codexes
Related terms edit
Translations edit
early book
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bound book
official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients
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See also edit
an official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients
References edit
- ^ “codex”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
codex m (plural codex)
- codex (all senses)
Further reading edit
- “codex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Originally an alternative form of caudex, showing 'rustic' monophthongization of /au̯/ to /oː/.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.deks/, [ˈkoːd̪ɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.deks/, [ˈkɔːd̪eks]
Noun edit
cōdex m (genitive cōdicis); third declension
- 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 edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
Inherited:
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 edit
- “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
- 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[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 edit
Noun edit
codex n (plural codexuri)
- Alternative form of codice
Declension edit
Declension of codex
singular | plural | |||
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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 |