The pharmacist and the boutique share a Greek ancestor meaning "storehouse" — one stored remedies, the other retail goods.
A person who prepared and sold medicines; an early pharmacist. Also refers to the shop where such preparations were sold.
From Old French apotecaire, from Late Latin apothecarius (storekeeper), from Greek apothēkē (storehouse), from apo- (away) + tithenai (to place) Key roots: apothēkē (Greek: "storehouse, place to put things away"), *dhē- (Proto-Indo-European: "to set, put, place").
The word "boutique" is a distant cousin of apothecary — both trace back to the Greek apothēkē meaning "storehouse." While the apothecary stored medicines, the boutique stored fashionable goods. Spanish botica still means pharmacy, preserving the original sense. The word bodega, meaning a small grocery or wine shop