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# codex

«codex» in Mova's school dictionary: **An old book written by hand, with pages bound together…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a codex, codices or codexes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An old book written by hand, with pages bound together, especially an ancient or medieval book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/codex/#m1)

2) A book of laws or rules (old use). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/codex/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it appears with ancient Mayan and Aztec books (like the Dresden Codex), early Bibles (Codex Sinaiticus) and Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks. A codex replaced the scroll because it was easier to use. Phrases: "an ancient codex", "Codex Sinaiticus".

### examples

- The codex was written by monks on animal skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/codex/#x1)
- The Maya painted their codices on bark paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/codex/#x2)
- Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are called codices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/codex/#x3)
- A codex has pages you turn, but a scroll is rolled up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/codex/#x4)
- Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest Bibles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/codex/#x5)

### note

Plural: codices ("KOH-di-seez"), less often codexes. A codex is a book with pages, unlike a scroll.

### In the corpora

- [After the conquest, Nahua writers working with the Spanish friar Bernardino de Sahagún recorded Aztec memories of the conquest in the Florentine Codex.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «codex» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/codex/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.