English

codify

From code + -ify.

A compound of code + -ify

Latin caudex ‘the stock or stem of a tree’

Latin cōdex ‘tree trunk’

Old French code ‘system of law’

Middle English code ‘system of law’

English code

Today it means

verb To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

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