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Meaning of codex | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈkəʊdɛks

Definitions

  1. An early manuscript book.
  2. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
  3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

Equivalents

العربية مخطوطة مصحف
Català còdex
Deutsch Kodex
Ελληνικά κώδικας σωμάτιο
Esperanto kodekso
Español códex códice
Suomi koodeksi
Français codex
Magyar kódex
Bahasa Indonesia babon kodeks naskah
Italiano codice
日本語 写本
한국어 사본
Polski kodeks
Português códex códice
Русский кодекс
Српски kodeks zbornik зборник кодекс
Türkçe düstur tedvin
Українська кодекс

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
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