codex

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

code

manuscript

leaf-book

directory

dispensatory

inventory

list

book

📖

numbering

register

roll

old manuscript

written copy

pharmacopeia

manifest

catalog

catalogue

Hyphenated as

co‧dex

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkəʊdɛks/

Etymology

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