φαρμακεία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φαρμακεύω (pharmakeúō, “to use drugs”) +‎ -ία (-ía), from φάρμακον (phármakon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰar.ma.kěː.aː/ → /ɸar.maˈci.a/ → /far.maˈci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰar.ma.kěː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰar.maˈki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸar.maˈci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /far.maˈci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /far.maˈci.a/

Noun

φᾰρμᾰκείᾱ • (pharmakeíā) f (genitive φᾰρμᾰκείᾱς); first declension

1. pharmacy; the use of drugs or medicines
2. sorcery, witchcraft

Descendants

• → French: pharmacie
• → Gothic: 𐌻𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌴𐌹 (lubjaleisei) (calque) (possibly)

Further reading

• “φαρμακεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φαρμακεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φαρμακεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5331 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • alchemy idem, page 22.
  • chemistry idem, page 129.
  • drugging idem, page 255.
  • magic idem, page 507.
  • pharmacy idem, page 610.
  • poisoning idem, page 624.
  • sorcery idem, page 794.
  • spell idem, page 801.
  • witchcraft idem, page 983.

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Greek

Noun

φαρμακεία • (farmakeía) n

1. Nominative, accusative and vocative plural form of φαρμακείο (farmakeío).