"apothecary" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈpɒθəkəɹi/ [UK], /əˈpɑθəˌkɛəɹi/ [US] Audio: en-us-apothecary.ogg , en-au-apothecary.ogg Forms: apothecaries [plural]
Etymology: From Old French apotecaire, from Medieval Latin apothecarius (“storekeeper”), from apotheca (“shop, store”), earlier Latin apotheca (“repository, storehouse, warehouse”), 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-}}, {{der|en|fro|apotecaire}} Old French apotecaire, {{der|en|ML.|apothecarius||storekeeper}} Medieval Latin apothecarius (“storekeeper”), {{der|en|la|apotheca||repository, storehouse, warehouse}} Latin apotheca (“repository, storehouse, warehouse”), {{der|en|grc|ἀποθήκη||a repository, storehouse}} Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “a repository, storehouse”), {{doublet|en|boutique|bodega}} Doublet of boutique and bodega Head templates: {{en-noun}} apothecary (plural apothecaries)
  1. (archaic in US, dated in UK) 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. Tags: archaic, dated Categories (topical): Healthcare occupations, People, Pharmacy, Scientists, Wicca Synonyms: pharmacist [synonym, synonym-of] Translations (Pharmacist): औषधविक्रेता (auṣadhvikretā) [masculine] (Marathi), அப்போதிக்கரி (appōtikkari) (Tamil)
    Sense id: en-apothecary-en-noun-B3fHlzDV Disambiguation of Healthcare occupations: 83 15 1 Disambiguation of People: 78 5 18 Disambiguation of Pharmacy: 44 50 6 Disambiguation of Scientists: 86 8 6 Disambiguation of Wicca: 67 21 13 Categories (other): American English, British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with apo-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Tamil translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 31 3 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with apo-: 63 25 12 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 69 22 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 76 17 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 72 25 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Marathi translations: 81 15 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Tamil translations: 78 13 8 Disambiguation of 'Pharmacist': 84 13 3
  2. (archaic or historical) Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore. Tags: archaic, historical Categories (topical): Pharmacy Synonyms: pharmacy [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-apothecary-en-noun-1qmAVKQc Disambiguation of Pharmacy: 44 50 6
  3. (uncommon) A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine. Tags: uncommon
    Sense id: en-apothecary-en-noun-ln0iOG6p
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: apothecarial, apothecary rose, apothecaryship

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "From Old French apotecaire, from Medieval Latin apothecarius (“storekeeper”), from apotheca (“shop, store”), earlier Latin apotheca (“repository, storehouse, warehouse”), 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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      "word": "apothecary's Latin"
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      "word": "apothecia"
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    {
      "word": "apothecium"
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      "word": "bibliotheca"
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      "word": "talk like an apothecary"
    },
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      "word": "thecal"
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      "word": "thecium"
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      "word": "thecodonts"
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          "ref": "1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called in Latin Irio”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 23, recto:",
          "text": "[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 75, column 2:",
          "text": "O true Appothecarie! / Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kiſſe I die.",
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          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 62:",
          "text": "The girls, though their illness was long and dangerous, recovered under Mrs. Palmer's care, who watched over them as if they had been her own; and from that time an affection, as valuable as it was pleasant, sprang up between them. When Lady Anne returned, she called, and talked about every thing but the apothecary's bill.",
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          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 2:",
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          "ref": "1998, Karen Holliday Tanner, Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, University of Oklahoma Press, published 2001, →ISBN, pages 205–206:",
          "text": "He was befriended by a local druggist, Jay Miller, who worked at the apothecary at the corner of Sixth and Harrison Street.",
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          "ref": "2001, Audrey Horning, “Archeology and the Science of Discovery”, in Barbara Heath et al., Jamestown Archeological Assessment, U.S. National Parks Service, page 31",
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    {
      "word": "apothecarie"
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      "word": "appothecarie"
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      "word": "apothicarie"
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      "word": "ypothegar"
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      "word": "pothecary"
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      "word": "potycary"
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    }
  ],
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}

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