plural of code
"The detective had to decipher several secret codes hidden in the letter before he could find the safe combination."
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of code
"The computer automatically codes every input before sending it to the server."
In plain English: To code means to write instructions for a computer so it can perform specific tasks.
"The detective codes all our files into the new secure system before leaving for lunch."
A diminutive of the male given name Cody.
"The baby boy was named Codes after his grandfather, a diminutive of the male given name Cody."
The word codes is simply a plural form of cody, which refers to an early American cowboy who worked on the range without owning his own cattle. It entered English as a standard grammatical construction rather than through any shift in meaning or origin from another language.