apothecary
Significado (Inglés)
- (archaic, dated) 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.
- (archaic, historical) Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
- (uncommon) A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.
Conceptos
Sinónimos
pharmaceutical chemist
dispensing chemist
pill pusher
pill roller
chemist's shop
medical man
chemist’s shop
medicamentarius
Traducciones
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/əˈpɒθəkəɹi/
Etimología (Inglés)
From Old French apotecaire (whence French apothicaire), from Medieval Latin apothecarius (“storekeeper”), from Latin apotheca (“(originally) repository, storehouse, warehouse; (later) shop, store”), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “a repository, storehouse”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”), literally “a place where things are put away”. Doublet of boutique and bodega.
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