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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “repository”).
Pronunciation
Noun
apothēca f (genitive apothēcae); first declension
- repository, storehouse, warehouse
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
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- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
Unsorted borrowings
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