# apotheca
## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

apothēca f (genitive apothēcae); first declension
* repository, storehouse, warehouse

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### 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
**** → Cebuano: botika
**** → Tagalog: botika
** → 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