different between codex vs comic

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

From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k?mikós, “relating to comedy”), from ????? (kômos, “carousal”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m?k/
• Rhymes: -?m?k

Adjective

comic (comparative more comic, superlative most comic)

1. Funny; amusing; comical.

2. Relating to comedy.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:funny
• (comedy): comedic, comical

Related terms

• comedian
• comical
• comicality
• comically
• comicalness
• comic strip

Translations

Noun

comic (plural comics)

1. A comedian.

2. A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
3. (Britain) A children's newspaper.

Related terms

• comic book
• comic strip
• comics
• stand-up comic

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French comique, from Latin comicus.

Adjective

comic m or n (feminine singular comic?, masculine plural comici, feminine and neuter plural comice)

1. comical

Declension

Spanish

Noun

comic m (plural comics)

1. Misspelling of cómic.