apothecary

Senso (Inglese)

  1. (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.
  2. (archaic, historical) Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
  3. (uncommon) A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.

sinonimi

pharmaceutical chemist

dispensing chemist

pill pusher

pill roller

chemist's shop

medical man

chemist’s shop

medicamentarius

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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/əˈpɒθəkəɹi/
Etimologia (Inglese)

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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