codex

noun
/ˈkəʊdɛks/UK/ˈkoʊdɛks/US

Etymology

From Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.

  1. borrowed from cōdex

Definitions

  1. An early manuscript book.

  2. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.

    • From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility.
  3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

The neighborhood

Derived

cryptex

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for codex. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA