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Latin
Etymology
From cōdex + -illus.
Noun
cōdicillus m (genitive cōdicillī); second declension
- (chiefly in the plural) firewood
- (chiefly in the plural) notepad, writing tablet; writing, petition
- codicil (to a will)
- commission; statement of appointment (to office)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “codicillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- codicillus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- codicillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “codicillus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “codicillus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin