apothecarius
Latin
Etymology
From apothēca + -ārius.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.po.tʰeːˈkaː.ri.us/, [äpɔt̪ʰeːˈkäːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.po.teˈka.ri.us/, [äpot̪eˈkäːrius]
Noun
apothēcārius m (genitive apothēcāriī or apothēcārī); second declension
- warehouseman, shopkeeper
- clerk
- druggist
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | apothēcārius | apothēcāriī |
| Genitive | apothēcāriī apothēcārī1 | apothēcāriōrum |
| Dative | apothēcāriō | apothēcāriīs |
| Accusative | apothēcārium | apothēcāriōs |
| Ablative | apothēcāriō | apothēcāriīs |
| Vocative | apothēcārie | apothēcāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- apothēca
Descendants
- Catalan: apotecari
- Old French: apotecaire
- Middle French: apotiquaire
- French: apothicaire
- Norman: apotitchi, apotiqu'sie
- Walloon: apoticåre
- → Middle English: apotecarie, apoticarie, ypoticarie, potecarie
- English: apothecary
- Scots: apothecar
- → Middle Irish: potecaire
- Irish: poitigéir
- Middle French: apotiquaire
- Spanish: apotecario
- Portuguese: apotecário, boticário
- → Middle High German: apotēker
- Bavarian: Abbodägga
- German: Apotheker
- Luxembourgish: Apdikter
- Yiddish: אַפּטייקער (apteyker)
References
- “apothecarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apothecarius 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)
- apothecarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette