codicil

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French codicille, from Latin cōdicillus, diminutive of cōdex. See code.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒdɪsɪl/, /ˈkəʊdɪsɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

codicil (plural codicils)

1. (law) An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one.
2. An addition or supplement modifying any official document, such as a treaty.
   • 2004, Barbara Alice Mann, “The Greenville Treaty of 1795: Pen-and-Ink Witchcraft in the Struggle for the Old Northwest”, in Bruce E. Johansen, editor, Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies‎^[1], Praeger, page 155:

     So insistent was this demand that the Wyandot actually received a codicil to the treaty […]

   • 2023 January 26, Christopher Caldwell, “It’s Anyone’s Guess What Will Happen in Northern Ireland in the Next 12 Weeks”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 June 2024:

     Those loose ends were tied up in a little-understood clarification of Brexit called the Northern Ireland protocol, ratified in January 2020. It looked like a mere codicil three years ago; now it looks like a serious diplomatic blunder that could threaten Britain’s territory and the region’s peace.

3. (by extension) Any appendix or addition.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378:

     If Nick answered a question Wani listened to him and then gave a flat little codicil or correction.

Derived terms

• codicillary

Translations

addition made to a will

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܡܓܠܬܐ f

• Catalan: codicil (ca)
• Dutch: codicil (nl) n, bijvoegsel (nl) n, aanhangsel (nl) n
• Esperanto: kodicilo
• French: codicille (fr) m
• Galician: codicilo m
• Ido: kodicilo (io)
• Italian: codicillo m
• Latin: cōdicillus m
• Manx: co-screeuyn çhymnee m pl
• Polish: kodycyl m
• Portuguese: codicilo (pt) m
• Russian: кодици́л m (kodicíl), кодици́лл m (kodicíll)
• Spanish: codicilo (es) m

Verb

codicil (third-person singular simple present codicils, present participle (US) codiciling or (UK) codicilling, simple past and past participle (US) codiciled or (UK) codicilled)

1. (ergative) To add a codicil (to).

Anagrams

• clidoic

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin codicillum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [ku.ðiˈsil]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia, Northwestern) [ko.ðiˈsil]

Noun

codicil m (plural codicils)

1. codicil

Derived terms

• codicil·lar

Further reading

• “codicil”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch codicille, from Latin cōdicillus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoː.diˈsil/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: co‧di‧cil
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

codicil n (plural codicillen or codicils, diminutive codicilletje n)

1. codicil

Derived terms

• donorcodicil

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂-

Proto-Italic *kūdō

Latin cūdō?

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ulisder.

Latin caulis?

Latin caudex

Latin cōdex

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -lus

Latin -illus

Latin codicillus

French codicillebor.

Romanian codicil

Borrowed from French codicille, from Latin codicillus.

Noun

codicil n (plural codicile)

1. codicil

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	codicil	codicilul	codicile	codicilele
genitive-dative	codicil	codicilului	codicile	codicilelor
vocative	codicilule		codicilelor