Codex

//ˈkəʊdɛks// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An early manuscript book.
  2. 2
    an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll) wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    an official list of chemicals or medicines etc. wordnet
  5. 5
    An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

Etymology

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

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