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.
- borrowed from cōdex
Definitions
An early manuscript book.
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.
An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
The neighborhood
- neighborcaudex
- neighborcode
- neighborcodicology
- neighborcodify
- neighborcodification
- neighborcodifier
- neighborstemma codicum
Derived
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