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Τιθημι(tithimi) is an Ancient Greek verb meaning ‘I place’ , ‘I position’. In combination with the preposition Aπό (apo) it means ‘I put away, I store, I safe keep’. The noun is αποθήκη (apothiki) and in modern Greek it still has the meaning the rest of the world dropped around the 14th century. A storage. Which was usually a cellar or a basement and made perfect conditions for medicine to be kept. So a person running a storage (in modern Greece) or  safe keeping medicine (in the English speaking world) is called ΑΠΟΘΗΚΑΡΙΟΣ/APOTHECARY

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