The English term pharmacy traces its roots to the Ancient Greek φαρμακεία (pharmakeía), which encompasses the notion of preparing, compounding, and dispensing drugs, in Greek …
Pharmacy
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National names
Nations’ names might change from language to another. Let’s see the patterns
Hospital
The etymologies of hospital and hotel
Spanish toponyms
Slug
Gastropods: When we talk about slugs, we need to talk about snails as well. Both belong to the class gastropods, a term invented by Georges Cuvier in …
Nurse
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Law
The translation of “law” to other European languages faces several difficulties. In most European languages, as well as some others influenced by European languages, there …
Counting
From eleven to nineteen We can classify languages according to the way numbers from 10 to 19 are composed. Often languages compose numbers higher than …
Disease
