different between codex vs parchment

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

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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 Middle English parchemyn, parchement, from Old French parchemin, via Latin pergam?na, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (Pergam?nós, “of Pergamun”), which is named for the Ancient city of Pergamon (modern Bergama) in Asia Minor, where it was invented as an expensive alternative for papyrus. Cognate with Danish pergament, Dutch perkament, French parchemin, German Pergament, Greek ????????? (pergaminí), Italian pergamena, Norwegian pergament, Portuguese pergaminho, Galician pergameo, Romanian pergament, Russian ????????? (pergament), Spanish pergamino, and Swedish pergament.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t?m?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??t?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: parch?ment

Noun

parchment (countable and uncountable, plural parchments)

1. Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.

   • At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

   Synonyms: bookfell, membrane, vellum

2. A document made on such material.
3. A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
4. Stiff paper imitating that material.

   Synonyms: vegetal parchment, parchment paper, wax paper

5. The creamy to tanned color of parchment.
6. The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.

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