apothecary

noun

Etymology: From Old French apotecaire (whence French apothicaire), from Medieval Latin apothecarius (“storekeeper”), from Latin apotheca (“(originally) repository, storehouse, warehouse; (later) shop, store”), 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 apotheke, boutique, and bodega.

1. 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.

   “[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.”

   “O true Appothecarie! / Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kiſſe I die.”

2. Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.

   “The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.”

   “He was befriended by a local druggist, Jay Miller, who worked at the apothecary at the corner of Sixth and Harrison Street.”

3. A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.