emporium

Etymology

From Latin emporium (“trading station, market town, market”); from Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (empórion, “trading station”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant”, “traveller”, literally “incomer”), from ἐν (en, “in”) and πόρος (póros, “journey”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛmˈpɔɹi.əm/

Noun

emporium (plural emporiums or emporia)

1. A market place or trading centre, particularly of an ancient city.
   • 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 28:

     Only where churchmen congregated or rulers established their emporia—licensed depots for the long-distance trade in luxuries—did any vestiges of urban life survive.

2. A shop that offers a wide variety of goods, often used facetiously.

   With a name like "The Wine and Spirits Emporium", no wonder the prices are so high.

3. A department store.
4. (obsolete) The brain.

Anagrams

• pomerium, proemium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (empórion, “trading station”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant”, “traveller”, literally “incomer”), from ἐν (en, “in”) and πόρος (póros, “journey”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /emˈpo.ri.um/, [ɛmˈpɔ.ri.ũ]

Noun

emporium n (genitive emporiī); second declension

1. emporium

References

• emporium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• emporium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• emporium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• emporium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• emporium in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• emporium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology

From Latin emporium (“trading station, market town, market”); from Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (empórion, “trading station”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant", "traveller", literally "incomer"”), from ἐν (en, “in”) and πόρος (póros, “journey”)

Noun

emporium n

1. emporium