apothecary

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.
Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.

Pronunciation

/əˈpɒθəkəɹi/ /əˈpɑθəˌkɛəɹi/ en-us-apothecary.ogg en-au-apothecary.ogg

Word forms

apothecary apothecaries apothecarie appothecarie apothicarie apoticary ypothecar ypothegar pothecary potycary potycarye poticary poticarie pottecary potticary

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

pharmacist pharmacy

Related words

apothecary's Latin apothecary's shop apothecia apothecium bibliotheca hypothec hypothecate spermatheca talk like an apothecary theca thecal thecate thecium thecodonts

Derived words

apothecarial apothecary rose apothecaryship

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