farmácia

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See also: farmacia and farmàcia

Portuguese

farmácia

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Ancient Greek φαρμακεία (pharmakeía, “the use of drugs”), from φάρμακον (phármakon, “a drug, charm, enchantment”).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /faʁˈma.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /faʁˈma.sjɐ/
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /faɾˈma.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /faɾˈma.sjɐ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /faʁˈma.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /faʁˈma.sjɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /faɻˈma.si.a/ , (faster pronunciation) /faɻˈma.sja/

  • Hyphenation: far‧má‧ci‧a

Noun

farmácia f (plural farmácias)

  1. a cabinet where medicine is stored
  2. pharmacy (a place where prescription drugs are dispensed)
    Synonyms: drogaria, botica
  3. (uncountable) the science of creating medicine

Hypernyms

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

farmácia f (related adjective farmaceutický)

  1. pharmacy (science)
    Synonym: lekárnictvo

Declension

Declension of farmácia (pattern ulica)
singular
nominativefarmácia
genitivefarmácie
dativefarmácii
accusativefarmáciu
locativefarmácii
instrumentalfarmáciou

Further reading

  • “farmácia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
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