Pronounced: RAH-fish, adj
Notes: I think I’ve run across this word in reading
Yesterday’s word
The word codex is “a manuscript volume (as opposed to a scroll), especially of an anicent text”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
As noted, I get our word confused with another word – coda (a closing passage at the end of a musical composition). Our word came from the Latin word codex (tree trunk; wood block; book).
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