apotheca

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “repository”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.poˈtʰeː.ka/, [äpɔˈt̪ʰeːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.poˈte.ka/, [äpoˈt̪ɛːkä]

Noun

apothēca f (genitive apothēcae); first declension

1. repository, storehouse, warehouse

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	apothēca	apothēcae
Genitive	apothēcae	apothēcārum
Dative	apothēcae	apothēcīs
Accusative	apothēcam	apothēcās
Ablative	apothēcā	apothēcīs
Vocative	apothēca	apothēcae

Derived terms

• apothēcārius
• apothēcō

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • botaiga
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: butteca
  • Italian: bottega
  • Neapolitan: puteca, putega, puteja
  • Sicilian: putìa, putiga, putija
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: bütega, butiga, butaja
  • Friulian: buteghe
  • Ladin: butëiga
  • Lombard: butiga, butega, boteia, botia
  • Piedmontese: boteja, buteja, botega
  • Romansch: butia, buteia
  • Venetan: botéga, botega
    • → Cimbrian: botéega
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: bouteca, boutca

    Piedmontese: bouteya

    Valdôtain: butea

• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: botiga

    Central: botica

  • Catalan: botiga
  • Old Occitan: botica
    • Occitan: botiga, botica, botia
    • → Middle French: boutique
      • French: boutique (see there for further descendants)
      • Norman: boutique, bouotique (Cotentin)
      • → German: Boutique, Budike (archaic sense only), Butike, Butik (now nonstandard)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: bodega
    • Asturian: bodega, buega
    • Extremaduran: botica
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: *abodega, *abdega, adega
    • Galician: adega
    • Portuguese: adega
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: bodega
    • Portuguese: bodega, botica
  • Old Spanish: bodega
    • Spanish: bodega (see there for further descendants)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: buteca, butega, butrea
• Borrowings:
  • → Alemannic German: Abodég
  • → Danish: apotek
    • → Faroese: apotek
  • → German: Apotheke
  • → Hungarian: apotéka
  • → Icelandic: apótek
  • → Luxembourgish: Apdikt
  • → Middle Dutch: apoteke
    • Dutch: apotheek
      • Afrikaans: apteek
      • → Indonesian: apotek
      • → Papiamentu: apotheek (dated)
      • → Sranan Tongo: apteiki
        • Aukan: aputeiki
    • Limburgish: appedieëk
  • → Middle Low German:
    • Dutch Low Saxon: apoteek, apotheek
    • German Low German: Apteek, Afteek
    • → Estonian: apteek
    • → North Frisian: apteek
  • → Norwegian: apotek
  • → Old High German: botega, potacha
    • Middle High German: botech, boteche
      • German: Bottich
  • → Old Polish: apoteka (learned)
    • Polish: apteka (see there for further descendants)
  • → Romanian: apotecă
  • → Russian: аптека (apteka)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: апотека

    Latin script: apoteka

  • → Old Spanish: botica
    • Spanish: botica
  • → Spanish: apoteca
  • → Swedish: apotek
    • → Finnish: apteekki

Unsorted borrowings

• → Hungarian: patika
• → Kashubian: aptéka
• → Latvian: aptieka
• → Slovak: apatéka, apatieka
• → Walloon: botike
• → West Frisian: apoteek
• → Yiddish: אַפּטייק (apteyk)

References

• “apotheca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apotheca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apotheca 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)
• apotheca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “apotheca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “apotheca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin