codex

FREQ #28361

n. 手抄本, 法典, 药典 [计] 编译码器, 压缩/解压程序

发音

UK /ˈkəʊdɛks/
US /ˈkoʊdɛks/

词形变化

codexes codices 复数 codices codexes 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An early manuscript book.

  2. 2.

    A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.

  3. 3.

    An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 4

list manuscript listing holograph

词源

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

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