codicillus

Latin

Etymology

From cōdex +‎ -illus.

Noun

cōdicillus m (genitive cōdicillī); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) firewood
2. (chiefly in the plural) notepad, writing tablet; writing, petition
3. codicil (to a will)
4. commission; statement of appointment (to office)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōdicillus	cōdicillī
Genitive	cōdicillī	cōdicillōrum
Dative	cōdicillō	cōdicillīs
Accusative	cōdicillum	cōdicillōs
Ablative	cōdicillō	cōdicillīs
Vocative	cōdicille	cōdicillī

Descendants

• → Catalan: codicil
• → English: codicil
• → Esperanto: kodicilo
• → French: codicille
• → German: Kodizill
• → Ido: kodicilo
• → Italian: codicillo
• → Portuguese: codicilo
• → Spanish: codicilo

References

• “codicillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• codicillus 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)
• codicillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “codicillus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “codicillus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin