Codex Definition

kōdĕks
codices
noun
codices
A code, or body of laws.
Webster's New World
A manuscript volume, esp. of the Scriptures or of a classic text.
Webster's New World

A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.

Wiktionary

An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • leaf-book

Other Word Forms of Codex

Noun

Singular:
codex
Plural:
codexes, codices

Origin of Codex

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin cōdex cōdic- tree trunk, wooden tablet, book variant of caudex trunk

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Codex Sentence Examples

  • If a codex could not be obtained by fair means, he was ready to use fraud, as when he bribed a monk to abstract a Livy and an Ammianus from the convent library of Hersfield.

  • A great part of the original of the Chronicle has been published by Adolf Bauer (Leipzig, 1905) from the Codex Matritensis Graecus, 22 I.

  • The codex Othobonianus omits the words bracketed.

  • It is this revised Codex which has come down to the modern world, all copies of the earlier edition having disappeared.

  • It is best discussed by Rendel Harris's books, The Origin of the Leicester Codex (1887), The Origin of the Ferrar Group (1893), and The Ferrar Group (1900), all published at Cambridge; the text of fam.'

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