apothecarius

Latin

Etymology

From apothēca +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.po.tʰeːˈkaː.ri.us/, [äpɔt̪ʰeːˈkäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.teˈka.ri.us/, [äpot̪eˈkäːrius]

Noun

apothēcārius m (genitive apothēcāriī or apothēcārī); second declension

1. warehouseman, shopkeeper
2. clerk
3. 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
• 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.