codex
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 5
/ˈkəʊdɛks/
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/ˈkəʊdɛks/ · /ˈkoʊdɛks/
Definition of codex
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- An early manuscript book.
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noun
- An early manuscript book.
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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.
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Etymology
From Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.
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