codicil

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codicil

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒdɪsɪl/, /ˈkəʊdɪsɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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, 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, →ISSN:

     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

Borrowed from Latin codicillum.

Pronunciation

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