What is the greek origin of the word pharmacy and its definition?

Answer 1

It comes from "pharmakon" that means both medication and toxic. The difference was the amount, a very clear idea, considering that even water can produce an intoxication

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Answer 3

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What is the greek origin of the word pharmacy and its definition?

Answer 4

I have gone crazy trying to find the name of a greek mythology book written by a French author who explains the origin of the word as originating from a Greek story about a woman who,swallowed all her infants to protect them from their angry, tired, frustrated father who decided to kill them to lighten his burden (the latter part may sound familiar to many of us "modern" fathers, I suppose). The children were soprotected from his murderous desperation while the older children took care of their father by sacrificing him, however, after that, their mother began to have severe abdominal cramps. The adult children then took some pebbles and small rocks and gave them to their mother to induce vomiting. And guess what? he threw up all of the infants...and everybody lived happily afterwards...w/o their father. What a fate for the sufferiing man! Now, i believe the old Greek term for stone/rock/pebble, the book said, is pharmaconor there abouts. If anyone has any notion of the book, I ll appreciate the name and its author.

Answer 5

PHAR'MACY, n. [Gr. a medicament, whether salutary or poisonous.] From the Greek φάρμακον. Pharmacy derives its name from the Greek root pharmakon, a drug

The art or practice of preparing, preserving and compounding substances, whether vegetable, mineral or animal, for the purposes of medicine; the occupation of an apothecary.

Answer 6

the word like someone posted is related to Pharmakopeia: pharmako- from the above word means "related to medicine".

In Wikipedia, pharmacopeia* means "the art of the drug compounder"

Note: pharmacopeia is a Latinized version of the Greek "pharmakopeia"

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Answer 8

from Ancient Greek "to pharmakon" (meaning both remedy and poison), via the verb "pharmakeuo" ("to mix potions or poison") and the noun "pharmakeia", referring to the practice of mixing potions or poinson, hence also meaning the arts associated with magic (thus in the Greek text of the Bible).

Answer 9

phar·ma·cy (färm-s) KEY

NOUN:
pl. phar·ma·cies
The art of preparing and dispensing drugs.
A place where drugs are sold; a drugstore. Also called apothecary .

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English farmacie, a purgative, from Old French, from Medieval Latin pharmaca, a medicine, from Greek pharmakeia, use of drugs, from pharmakon, drug

Answer 10

farmakeiwn It is translated as drugs or sorceries in the Bible.