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Etymology of the English word code

the English word code
derived from the Old French word code
derived from the Latin word codex (trunk of tree; piece, block of wood)
derived from the Latin word caudex (trunk of tree; piece, hunk of wood)
derived from the Juridical Latin word codex

Derivations in English

codon, duck, codify, coding, decode, encode, geocode, microcode, postcode, codification, miscode, vocoder

Derivations in other languages

French digicode

Cognates

Dutch code, French code, German Kode, Norwegian kode, Swedish kod

Usage

Word found in Modern English


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