pandect
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Noun — (law) Usually as Pandects: a collection of Roman legal writings put together in the 6th century on the orders of Emperor Justinian.
Etymology
Sense 3, "comprehensive treatise", comes from Latin pandectēs ("book that contains everything, encyclopedia"), from Ancient Greek πανδέκτης (pandéktēs, "encyclopedia", literally "all-receiver"), made up of παν- (pan-, prefix meaning 'all', from πᾶς (pâs, "all")) plus δέκτης (déktēs, "receiver, recipient", from δέχομαι...
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