Codex

//ˈkəʊdɛks//

Synonyms for "codex" (6 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (3)

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Translations

27 translations across 19 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • مَخْطُوطَة noun (early book)

Catalan

1 entries
  • còdex noun (early book)

Classical Nahuatl

1 entries
  • āmoxtli noun (early book)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • kodekso noun (early book)

French

1 entries
  • codex noun (early book)

Greek

3 entries
  • κώδικας noun (early book)
  • κώδικας noun (bound book)
  • σωμάτιο noun (early book)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • קוֹדֶקְס noun (bound book)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • (állami) gyógyszerkönyv noun (official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients)
  • kódex noun (early book)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • kodeks noun (early book)

Italian

1 entries
  • codice noun (early book)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 書誌 noun (bound book)

Nahuatl

1 entries
  • amoxtli noun (early book)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries
  • pirtûk noun (early book)

Polish

1 entries
  • kodeks noun (early book)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • códice noun (early book)

Russian

1 entries
  • ко́декс noun (early book)

Spanish

2 entries
  • códex noun (early book)
  • códice noun (early book)

Turkish

4 entries
  • kodeks noun (bound book)
  • mahtuta noun (early book)
  • mahtuta noun (bound book)
  • tedvin noun (early book)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • ко́декс noun (early book)

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

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