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pharmacist
English
Etymology
pharmacy +? -ist
Pronunciation
- enPR: fär'm?s?st, IPA(key): /?f??m?s?st/
Noun
pharmacist (plural pharmacists)
- (pharmacy) A professional person trained in preparing, mixing, and dispensing drugs and medicinal preparations and advising the public in their use.
- (pharmacy, academic) One who studies pharmacy.
Related terms
- pharmacy
- pharmaceutical
Translations
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apothecary
English
Etymology
From Old French apotecaire, from Medieval Latin apothecarius (“storekeeper”), from apotheca (“shop, store”), earlier Latin apotheca (“repository, storehouse, warehouse”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (apoth?k?, “a repository, storehouse”), from ??? (apó, “away”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “to put”) literally "a place where things are put away".
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??p???k??i/
- (US) IPA(key): /??p????k???i/
Noun
apothecary (plural apothecaries)
- (dated) A person who makes and provides/sells drugs and/or medicines.
- (nonstandard, dated) A drugstore or pharmacy.
- 1919, S.A., “Pharmacy in Russia”, in Soviet Russia, volume 1, number 27, page 6:
- The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.
- 1998, Karen Holliday Tanner, Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, University of Oklahoma Press (2001), ?ISBN, pages 205–206:
- He was befriended by a local druggist, Jay Miller, who worked at the apothecary at the corner of Sixth and Harrison Street.
- 2001, Audrey Horning, “Archeology and the Science of Discovery”, in Barbara Heath et al., Jamestown Archeological Assessment, U.S. National Parks Service, page 31:
- Seeds found in a 1630s refuse-filled clay borrow pit, located near an apothecary, illustrate colonists[sic, meaning colonists’] intense interest in experimenting with the medicinal qualities of New World plants.
- 1919, S.A., “Pharmacy in Russia”, in Soviet Russia, volume 1, number 27, page 6:
- A glass jar similar to those once used for medicine.
Synonyms
- (person who makes and sells drugs): druggist, pharmacist, chemist
- (store that sells drugs): drugstore; pharmacy; apothecary's shop, apothecary's (UK)
Translations
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Further reading
- apothecary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- apothecary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- apothecary at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “apothecary”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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