Pharmacy is a combination of the Greek term * pharama form IE * bher- (to charm, enchant) and -(a)-ko- resulting in * pharmako- (magic, charm, cure, potion, medicine) and in Latin pharmacie.
and directly from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Greek pharmakeia "a healing or harmful medicine, a healing or poisonous herb; a drug, poisonous potion; magic (potion), dye, raw material for physical or chemical processing."
Historically, the term “apothecary” referred to both the person who manufactured and dispensed medicines (lowercase “a” for our purposes), and the shop in which those medicines were sold (capitalized “A”).
However, the word pharmacy and its many cognates derived, like many of the other scientific terms, most likely originates from the Greeks. It is impossible to put a exact date when the word pharmacy originated since people were practicing medicine before the word even existed.
The world “Pharmacy” is derived from the Greek word “pharmakon” meaning "drug".
Pharmacy is a combination of the Greek term * pharama form IE * bher- (to charm, enchant) and -(a)-ko- resulting in * pharmako- (magic, charm, cure, potion, medicine) and in Latin pharmacie. Chemist's shop is the English version of an American drugstore.
This is from pharmakeus (fem. pharmakis) "a preparer of drugs, a poisoner, a sorcerer" from pharmakon "a drug, a poison, philter, charm, spell, enchantment." Beekes writes that the original meaning cannot be clearly established, and "The word is clearly Pre-Greek." The ph- was restored 16c.
Etymology. From Middle English sorcery, borrowed from Middle French sorcerie, ultimately derived from Latin sors (“fate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).
صيدلية (ṣaydaliyyah) pharmacy.
phar·ma·cy ˈfär-mə-sē plural pharmacies. : the art, practice, or profession of preparing, preserving, compounding, and dispensing medical drugs. : a place where medicines are compounded or dispensed.
The Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy is probably the oldest still-operating pharmacy in the world, and certainly the oldest in Italy. It was established in 1221, when the Dominican monks from the adjacent Basilica of Santa Maria Novella began growing herbs to make balms, salves and medicines for their infirmary.
Mahadeva Lal Schroff: father of Indian pharmacy education.
In early Greek antiquity, the term pharmacy was related to herbal inquiries, with the occupants called charmers and pharmacists. Additionally, apart from therapeutic methods, ancient Greeks acknowledged the importance of pain therapy and had invented certain remedies for both acute and chronic pain management.
Bible Gateway attributes the increased interest in sorcery to the Greek root word φαρμακεία or pharmakeia. Some Christians used the lexical connection between the Greek word and the modern English word “pharmaceuticals” to claim the Bible warned about vaccinations, particularly the Covid-19 vaccine.
There are several places in the Bible, where faith alone is accounted for the healing of the people. But there is no place in the Bible that forbids the use of drugs, especially for someone who is ill. Jesus said: “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick”—Matthew 9:12.
The Modern-Hebrew word for drugs is סַמִּים listen and repeat, while one drug is סַם listen and repeat. These refer to street drugs only – the word for medicine is תְּרוּפָה listen and repeat.
The world's oldest known prescriptions were recorded on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), ca. 2400 BC.
Enchantress most commonly refers to: Enchantress (supernatural), a magician, sorcerer, enchanter, wizard; sometimes called an enchantress, sorceress, or witch if female.
Purgatory comes from a Late Latin verb meaning "to cleanse" — purge shares the same root. In Roman Catholic doctrine, souls atoned for past sins in purgatory before entering heaven. In fact, for centuries, purgatory was often regarded as an actual physical place.
The root word for magic (Greek: mageia; Latin: magia) derives from the Greek term magoi, which refers to a Median tribe in Persia and their religion, Zoroastrianism.
Snakes have been used for worship, magic potions and, medicine, and they have been the symbol of love, health, disease, medicine, pharmacy, immortality, death and even wisdom.
It is derived from the Greek source term φάρμακον (phármakon), a word that can mean either remedy, poison, or scapegoat. In his book "Plato's Pharmacy", Derrida explores the notion that writing is a pharmakon in a composite sense of these meanings as "a means of producing something".
noun. /ˈfɑːməsi/ /ˈfɑːrməsi/ (plural pharmacies) [countable] a shop, or part of one, that sells medicines and drugs.