Codifier

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person or organization that systematically organizes regulations into an accessible format can be described in this way
2. An individual or entity responsible for compiling and arranging laws or regulations into a structured and coherent code
3. A person who organizes legal statutes into an orderly and uniform framework for easier reference and application

Etymology: "Codifier" is simply "codify" plus the agent suffix "-er," so its story is really the story of the verb it comes from. "Codify" reaches English through Old French from Latin "codex," a block of wooden tablets or a book, which gave English "code" in the sense of a body of laws. Latin "codex" itself had earlier meant a tree trunk, the "caudex," and the wooden writing tablets were bound together like a log-shaped book, so a code began as a stack of wood. The verb "codify" was formed in English by adding the suffix "-ify," which came through Old French and Latin from a Latin verb meaning "to make." To codify is therefore to make a code: to collect scattered laws or rules and arrange them into one systematic body. The "-er" ending, inherited from Old English through Middle English, turns the verb into a noun for the person who does this work.

Synonyms: compiler, organizer, arranger, systematizer, standardizer