code

common nounverb

Syllable Decomposition

code

from Latin codex, itself from caudex, which originally designated the trunks of trees, and then later the tablets made from them. The term then designated books more generally, and more specifically legal books containing laws, and finally by metonymy, the word code has been used to designate the set of written laws in these books.

Definitions

droit
antiquité
histoire
programmation

Plural

codes

Translations

  • italianitalian:codice
  • dutchdutch:wetboek
  • portugueseportuguese:código
  • englishenglish:code

See also

code (v.) codant (adj.) décodeur (cn.) recoder (v.) coder (v.) codage (cn.) encodage (cn.) décoder (v.) encoder (v.) encodeur (cn.) décodage (cn.) codes (v.)