"codex" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkəʊdɛks/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkoʊdɛks/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-codex.ogg [US] Forms: codices [plural], codexes [plural]
enPR: kōʹdĕks Rhymes: -ɛks Etymology: From Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|cōdex}} Latin cōdex, {{m|la|caudex||tree trunk, book, notebook}} caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”), {{m|en|caudex}} caudex, {{doublet|en|code}} Doublet of code Head templates: {{en-noun|codices|+}} codex (plural codices or codexes)
  1. An early manuscript book. Translations (early book): مَخْطُوطَة (maḵṭūṭa) [feminine] (Arabic), còdex [masculine] (Catalan), āmoxtli (Classical Nahuatl), kodekso (Esperanto), codex [masculine] (French), κώδικας (kódikas) [masculine] (Greek), σωμάτιο (somátio) [neuter] (Greek), kódex (Hungarian), codice [masculine] (Italian), amoxtli (Nahuatl), pirtûk (Northern Kurdish), kodeks [masculine] (Polish), códice [masculine] (Portuguese), ко́декс (kódeks) [masculine] (Russian), códice [masculine] (Spanish), mahtuta (Turkish), tedvin (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-codex-en-noun-VmP-8Y~U Disambiguation of 'early book': 72 28 0
  2. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
    Sense id: en-codex-en-noun--znHPxbC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 62 34 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 3 77 20
  3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients. Translations (official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients): (állami) gyógyszerkönyv (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-codex-en-noun-~h7gcb34 Disambiguation of 'official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients': 0 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: caudex [botany, biology, natural-sciences], code, codicology, codify, codification, codifier, stemma codicum, dispensatory, formulary, pharmacopoeia Translations (bound book): κώδικας (kódikas) [masculine] (Greek), קוֹדֶקְס (kodeks) [masculine] (Hebrew), 書誌 (shoshi) (alt: しょし) (Japanese), kodeks (Turkish), tedvin (Turkish), mahtuta (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'bound book': 50 50 0

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