of, by means of drugs, pharmacy, one who prescribes drugs
of or by means of drugs or pharmacy, κάθαρσις Pl. Ti. 89b: ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη), = φαρμακεία, opp. surgery. Gal. 15.425, D.L. 3.85; φ. ἰατρός one who prescribes drugs, Gal. Thras. 24.
The corpus record
φαρμᾰκ-ευτικός
pharmakeutikos
of, by means of drugs, pharmacy
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Where it lives
- Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- φαρμακευτική · pharmakeutikē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2850)
- φαρμακευτικὴ · pharmakeutikē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2851)
- φαρμακευτική · pharmakeutikē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2852)
- φαρμακευτικῆς · pharmakeutikēs Plato, Timaeus 89 (DIORISIS sentence 856)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.