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"pharmacy" in seven languages

Meaningpharmacy

Spanish

farmacia

/faɾˈmaθja/

fem.learned

French

pharmacie

/faʁmasi/

fem.learned

Italian

farmacia

/farmaˈtʃia/

fem.learned

Portuguese

farmácia

/fahˈmasjɐ/

fem.learned

Romanian

farmacie

/farmaˈtʃie/

fem.borrowed · French pharmacie and Italian farmacia

Catalan

farmàcia

/fərˈmasiə/

fem.learned

English

pharmacy

/ˈfɑɹməsi/

from Latin/French · Old French farmacie

English → ItalianpharmacyfarmaciaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

PHARMACIAM‘use of drugs (from Greek pharmakeía)’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A Greek word with two stresses: Spanish farmacia stresses -ma- (the Latin way), Italian farmacìa the -ci- (the Greek way). Spanish and Italian write ph as f; French keeps it.

English relatives: pharmacy, pharmaceutical

Sound laws at work

C before E and I

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In a sentence

  • es¿Hay una farmacia cerca de aquí?
  • frIl y a une pharmacie près d'ici ?
  • itC'è una farmacia qui vicino?
  • ptTem uma farmácia aqui perto?
  • roEste vreo farmacie pe aici?
  • caHi ha una farmàcia a prop d'aquí?
  • enIs there a pharmacy near here?

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