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codex

PRONUNCIATION:

(KOH-deks)

MEANING:

noun: A manuscript volume (as opposed to a scroll), especially of an ancient text.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin codex (tree trunk, wood block, book). Earliest documented use: 1581.

USAGE:

“The most legendary is the Voynich manuscript (a handwritten codex carbon-dated to the 15th century and thought to have originated in Central Europe), which cryptographers have still yet to solve.”
David Kushner; The Web’s Deepest Mystery; Rolling Stone (New York); Jan 29, 2015.

See more usage examples of codex in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Never lend books -- nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924)

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