different between codification vs codex

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.d?f??ke?.??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

codification (countable and uncountable, plural codifications)

1. The process of precisely formulating a statement, such as a code of laws.

   The task force spent months on the codification of their mandate.

2. The act or result of arranging something into a code; the act of setting down a body of knowledge in a systematic way.

Translations

See also

• legal code

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.di.fi.ka.sj??/

Noun

codification f (plural codifications)

1. codification

Further reading

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

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