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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀποτίθημι (apotíthēmi, “to put away”), from ἀπο- (apo-, “away”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”). Other suggestion, related to ὀπτῐκός (optĭkós, “of or for sight”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.po.tʰɛ̌ː.kɛː/ → /a.poˈθi.ci/ → /a.poˈθi.ci/
Noun
ᾰ̓ποθήκη • (ăpothḗkē) f (genitive ᾰ̓ποθήκης); first declension
- repository, storehouse, warehouse
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀποθήκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀποθήκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀποθήκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀποθήκη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G596 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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- closet idem, page 139.
- cupboard idem, page 189.
- depository idem, page 212.
- garner idem, page 354.
- granary idem, page 369.
- loft idem, page 497.
- magazine idem, page 507.
- repository idem, page 697.
- store idem, page 820.
- store house idem, page 820.
- warehouse idem, page 964.