apotheca

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

apothēca f (genitive apothēcae); first declension

  1. repository, storehouse, warehouse

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative apothēca apothēcae
genitive apothēcae apothēcārum
dative apothēcae apothēcīs
accusative apothēcam apothēcās
ablative apothēcā apothēcīs
vocative apothēca apothēcae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: buteca, butega, butrea
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: bouteca, boutca
      Piedmontese: bouteya
      Valdôtain: butea
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-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
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