Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To write software programs. · To add codes to (a data set). · To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. · To encode.
Etymology tree Latin caudex Latin cōdex Old French codebor. Middle English code English code From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”). Doublet of codex. Verb etymology 1, verb sense 7 is an ellipsis of code blue (“medical emergency”).
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