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In ancient Greek too. They invented the thing. The Romans had a similar legal contract, but adopted the term to avoid confusion with other lending practices. A
by narag 5y ago
In ancient Greek too. They invented the thing. The Romans had a similar legal contract, but adopted the term to avoid confusion with other lending practices.
As dt_r pointed, apotheke always meant "away room" so it makes sense to think that it got the new meaning because of context: it surely was imported alongside other Greek terms about drugs.
- StavrosK 5y agoSure, but I don't speak much ancient Greek and I didn't want to make too many assumptions about what carried over versus what changed.