ἀποθήκη Ancient Greek · revision 3183

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=5th century BC, Herodotus|origins=ine-pro *dʰeh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (5th-century BC Attic): /a.po.tʰɛ̌ː.kɛː/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (4th-century AD Koine): /a.poˈθi.ci/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (10th-century Byzantine): /a.poˈθi.ci/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ᾰ̓ποθήκη''' (apothḗkē) ''f'' (genitive ᾰ̓ποθήκης); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is derived from [[ἀποτίθημι|tr=apotíthēmi|t=to put away, store]], formed from [[ἀπό|alt=ἀπο-|tr=apo-|t=away]] and [[τίθημι|tr=títhēmi|t=to put]].^(Wiktionary)^(CGL 2021)^(BDAG 2000) Τίθημι is from [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to put]].^(Wiktionary)^(Beekes 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Herodotus uses it in an abstract sense: to “make a store” of favour with the Persian king.^(LSJ 1940)^(CGL 2021)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Thucydides uses it for a storehouse for equipment and funds, and later writers for any place where things are put away: Lucian has a store of books and a burial place for bodies, and the historian Philistus a refuge.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE) In the Septuagint it is a storeroom or a store, and in the Gospels the barn into which the wheat is gathered.^(Lust 2003)^(BDAG 2000)

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+ Latin borrowed it as [[m|la|apothēca|t=storehouse]], the source of German ''Apotheke'' “pharmacy” and Russian ''аптека''.^(Wiktionary) Modern Greek [[m|el|αποθήκη|tr=apothíki]] is a warehouse, a storeroom, and a shop selling stock.^(Triantafyllidis 1998)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 5th century BC – Herodotus uses it for a store of goodwill.^(LSJ 1940)^(CGL 2021)

+ * 5th century BC – Thucydides uses it for a storehouse.^(LSJ 1940)^(CGL 2021)

+ * 3rd–1st century BC – The Septuagint uses it for storerooms.^(Lust 2003)

+ * 1st century AD – The Gospels use it for a barn.^(BDAG 2000)

+ * 2nd century AD – Lucian uses it for a library and a burial place.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|storehouse]], magazine, repository.^(LSJ 1940)^(CGL 2021)

+ # A [[m|en|barn]] for grain.^(CGL 2021)^(BDAG 2000)

+ # A store, something laid by.^(LSJ 1940)^(CGL 2021)

+ # A refuge.^(LSJ 1940)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ἀποτίθημι|tr=apotíthēmi]]

+ * [[θήκη|tr=thḗkē]]

+ * [[la|apotheca]]

+ * [[en|apothecary]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}