HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF FORMING AND FUNCTIONING OF THE RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN TERMINOLOGY OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY IN 17 C. (WITH REFERENCE TO DOCUMENTATION OF “CHEMIST’S ORDER”)

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of formation and functioning of the Russian and foreign terminology of pharmaceutical chemistry in the diachronic aspect. The researcher has defined the disciplinary structure of the pharmaceutical vocabulary of the 17th century, including the names of chemical elements and chemical compounds, presented its correlation analysis on the example of the Russian and Latin languages, identified the formal and semantic structures of nomenclature units, marked the most common lexical units specific to pharmaceutical chemistry of the period under review. The paper reveals numerous variants, the abundance of which is associated with the weak normalization of the Russian language. The formation of Russian pharmaceutical terminology is mainly due to borrowings, primarily from the Latin language, less often new formations based on the native language. This direction in the development of terminology is associated with more developed terminology of Western European pharmaceutical chemistry.