apothecary

FREQ #32704

n. 药剂师, 药房 [医] 药剂员; 药店

发音

UK /əˈpɒθəkəɹi/
US /əˈpɑθəˌkɛəɹi/
AU

词形变化

apothecaries 复数 apothecaries

别名

potecary apothecarie appothecarie apothicarie apoticary ypothecar ypothegar pothecary potycary potycarye poticary poticarie pottecary potticary

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    古体 过时
  2. 2.

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

    古体 历史

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

    Seeds found in a 1630s refuse-filled clay borrow pit, located near an apothecary, illustrate colonists intense interest in experimenting with the medicinal qualities of New World plants.

  3. 3.

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

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

chemist pharmacist druggist pill pusher

上位词 2

caregiver PCP

下位词 1

pharmacologist

相关短语

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词源

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 boutique and bodega.

来源：wiktionary