different between codex vs codify

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: k??d?ks
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??d?ks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ko?.d?ks/
• Hyphenation: co?dex
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

codex (plural codices or codexes)

1. An early manuscript book.
2. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

Quotations

• See codexes

Related terms

• caudex (botany)
• code
• codifier
• codify
• codification
• stemma codicum

Translations

References

Anagrams

• coxed

French

Etymology

From Latin c?dex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.d?ks/

Noun

codex m (plural codex)

1. codex (all senses).

Further reading

• “codex” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko?.deks/, [?ko?d??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.deks/, [?k??d??ks]

Noun

c?dex m (genitive c?dicis); third declension

1. Alternative form of caudex (“tree trunk; book, notebook”)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• Codex Argenteus
• c?dicillus

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• 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?^[2], 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

English

Etymology

code +? -ify

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?.d??fa?/, /?ko?.d??fa?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.d??fa?/

Verb

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

1. To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

2. To collect and arrange in a systematic form.

   • 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.”

Synonyms

• systematize

Derived terms

Related terms

• code
• codex

Translations