Associations to the word «Codex»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

CODEX, noun. An official list of chemicals or medicines etc..
CODEX, noun. An unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll).

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky