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An apothecary was someone who mixed and sold medicines in the past — the person behind the counter who weighed powders, made up bottles, and knew the old recipes. Before the modern , this was the usual English word. You meet it in history, in Shakespeare, and in stories that want an old-fashioned flavour; you would not walk into a Taiwan 藥局 and ask for the apothecary. Though actually, the word named both the person and, loosely, the shop. It can sound quaint now, which hides how serious the work was: people trusted this mixer with their health.
（舊時）藥劑師、藥鋪裡調藥的人
組成From Old French apotecaire (whence French apothicaire), from Medieval Latin apothecarius (“storekeeper”), from Latin apotheca (“repository, storehouse; later shop”), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “a repository, storehouse”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”) — literally a place where things are put away. Doublet of boutique and bodega.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
apothecarynoun/əˈpɒθəkəɹi/
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archaicdatedSynonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
- [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
- O true Appothecarie! / Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kiſſe I die.
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archaichistoricalSynonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
- The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.
- He was befriended by a local druggist, Jay Miller, who worked at the apothecary at the corner of Sixth and Harrison Street.
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A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。