apothecary
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apothecary
- /əˈpɒθəkəɹi/ UK
- /əˈpɑθəˌkɛəɹi/ US
Where it comes from
From Old French apotecaire (whence French apothicaire), from Medieval Latin apothēcārius (“storekeeper”), from Latin apothēca (“(originally) repository, storehouse, warehouse; (later) shop, store”) + -ārius (occupational suffix), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “a repository, storehouse”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”), literally “a place where things are put away”.
noun apothecaries · apothecarie · appothecarie · apothicarie · apoticary · ypothecar
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Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
Similar: pharmacist
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Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.
Similar: pharmacy
- A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.
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noun Pharmacist
| Español | apotecario, apoticario, boticario |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Apotheker, Apothekerin, Provisor |
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