Meaning & use
codex
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an ancient manuscript in book form, or a systematic collection of laws, rules, or standards
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The museum displayed a medieval codex bound in leather.
Food manufacturers follow the Codex Alimentarius, an international codex of food safety standards.
A note on using this word
The plural is 'codices.' Codex originally referred to early book-form manuscripts (as opposed to scrolls) and later broadened to mean any formal, organized set of rules.
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