noun
Meaning 1
An early manuscript book.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
codex
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Pronunciation
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kōʹdĕks
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊdɛks/
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General-American: /ˈkoʊdɛks/
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rhymes with -ɛks
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homophone: codecs
noun
Meaning 2
A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
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noun
Meaning 4
an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: leaf-book
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: manuscript, holograph
noun
Meaning 5
an official list of chemicals or medicines etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: list, listing
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَخْطُوطَة (maḵṭūṭa) — early book
- Bulgarian: ко́декс (kódeks) — early book
- Catalan: còdex — early book
- Esperanto: kodekso — early book
- French: codex — early book
- Greek: κώδικας (kódikas) — early book
- Greek: σωμάτιο (somátio) — early book
- Hungarian: kódex — early book
- Indonesian: kodeks — early book
- Italian: codice — early book
- Northern Kurdish: pirtûk — early book
- Nahuatl: amoxtli — early book
- Classical Nahuatl: āmoxtli — early book
- Polish: kodeks — early book
- Portuguese: códice — early book
- Russian: ко́декс (kódeks) — early book
- Spanish: códice — early book
- Spanish: códex — early book
- Turkish: mahtuta — early book
- Turkish: tedvin — early book
- Ukrainian: ко́декс (kódeks) — early book
- Bulgarian: ко́декс (kódeks) — bound book
- Greek: κώδικας (kódikas) — bound book
- Hebrew: קוֹדֶקְס (kodeks) — bound book
- Japanese: 書誌 (shoshi) — bound book
- Turkish: kodeks — bound book
- Turkish: tedvin — bound book
- Turkish: mahtuta — bound book
- Hungarian: (állami) gyógyszerkönyv — official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients
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