# apothecary

> English word · Noun · IPA /əˈpɒθəkəɹi/ · frequency rank #39,680

## Definitions
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.
2. Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
3. A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.

## 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 boutique and bodega.

## Common misspellings (15)
`aopthecary`, `apohtecary`, `apotehcary`, `apothceary`, `apotheacry`, `apothecarry`, `apothecaryy`, `apothecayr`, `apotheccary`, `apothecray`, `apothhecary`, `apotthecary`, `appothecary`, `aptohecary`, `paothecary`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/apothecary