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Rick Mc Callister rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu
Thu Jun 14 21:24:51 UTC 2001


	A very fertile word in Spanish!

apotecario "pharmacist"
bodega "storage room, wine cellar, shop, convenience store"
botica "pharmacy"
boticario "herbal doctor"
botiqui/n "medicine cabinet"
and from French butik, boutique
etc.

[snip]
>It occurred to me that there is another example in the Italian bottega,
>Spanish (whence English) bodega, meaning shop or inn, from the Greek
>apotheke.

>Peter

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701



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