apotheca

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “repository”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /a.poˈtʰeː.ka/, [äpɔˈt̪ʰeːkä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.poˈte.ka/, [äpoˈt̪ɛːkä]

Noun

apothēca f (genitive apothēcae); first declension

repository, storehouse, warehouse

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	apothēca	apothēcae
Genitive	apothēcae	apothēcārum
Dative	apothēcae	apothēcīs
Accusative	apothēcam	apothēcās
Ablative	apothēcā	apothēcīs
Vocative	apothēca	apothēcae

Derived terms

apothēcārius
apothēcō

Descendants

Dalmatian:
- botaiga
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: butteca
- Italian: bottega
- Neapolitan: puteca, putega, puteja
- Sicilian: putìa, putiga, putija
Padanian:
- Emilian: bütega, butiga, butaja
- Friulian: buteghe
- Ladin: butëiga
- Lombard: butiga, butega, boteia, botia
- Piedmontese: boteja, buteja, botega
- Romansch: butia, buteia
- Venetian: botéga, botega
  - → Cimbrian: botéega
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: bouteca, boutca
  Piedmontese: bouteya
  Valdôtain: butea
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: botiga
  Central: botica
- Catalan: botiga
- Old Occitan: botica
  - Occitan: botiga, botica, botia
  - → Middle French: boutique
    - French: boutique (see there for further descendants)
    - Norman: boutique, bouotique
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: bodega, buega
- Extremaduran: botica
- Old Portuguese: *abodega, *abdega, adega
  - Galician: adega
  - Portuguese: adega
- Old Portuguese:
  - Galician: bodega
  - Portuguese: bodega, botica
- Old Spanish: botica
  - Spanish: bodega (see there for further descendants)
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: buteca, butega, butrea
Borrowings:
- → Alemannic German: Abodég
- → Danish: apotek
  - → Faroese: apotek
- → German: Apotheke
- → Hungarian: apotéka
- → Icelandic: apótek
- → Luxembourgish: Apdikt
- → Middle Dutch: apoteke
  - Dutch: apotheek
    - Afrikaans: apteek
    - → Aukan: aputeiki
    - → Indonesian: apotek
    - → Papiamentu: apotheek (dated)
    - → Sranan Tongo: apteiki
  - Limburgish: appedieëk
- → Middle Low German:
  - Dutch Low Saxon: apoteek, apotheek
  - German Low German: Apteek, Afteek
  - → Estonian: apteek
  - → North Frisian: apteek
- → Norwegian: apotek
- → Old High German: botega, potacha
  - Middle High German: botech, boteche
    - German: Bottich
- → Old Polish: apoteka (learned)
  - Polish: apteka (see there for further descendants)
- → Romanian: apotecă
- → Russian: аптека (apteka)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: апотека
  Latin: apoteka
- → Spanish: apoteca
- → Swedish: apotek
  - → Finnish: apteekki

Unsorted borrowings

→ Hungarian: patika
→ Kashubian: aptéka
→ Latvian: aptieka
→ Slovak: apatéka, apatieka
→ Walloon: botike
→ West Frisian: apoteek
→ Yiddish: אַפּטייק‎ (apteyk)

References

“apotheca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“apotheca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
apotheca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
apotheca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“apotheca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“apotheca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin