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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin emporium (“trading station; business district in a city; market town”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (empórion, “factory, trading station; market”), from ??????? (émporos, “merchant, trader; traveller”) + -??? (-ion, suffix forming nouns). ??????? is derived from ??- (em-) (variant of ??- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in; within’)) + ????? (póros, “journey; passageway”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth”)), modelled after ?? ???? (en pór?i, “at sea; en route”).

Sense 4 (“the brain”) alludes to the organ as the place where many nerves or nerve impulses meet.

The plural form emporia is from the Latin emporia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p??.?i.?m/, /?m-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?p?.?i.?m/, /?m-/
• Hyphenation: em?por?i?um

Noun

emporium (plural emporiums or emporia)

1. (also figuratively) A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.
2. (also figuratively) A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods.
3. (historical) A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).
4. (by extension, obsolete) The brain.

Related terms

• emporetic (obsolete)

Translations

References

Further reading

• emporium (antiquity) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• emporium (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pomerium, proemium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin emporium (“trading station, market town, market”); from Ancient Greek ???????? (empórion, “trading station”), from ??????? (émporos, “merchant", "traveller", literally "incomer"”), from ?? (en, “in”) and ????? (póros, “journey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?po?ri?m/
• Hyphenation: em?po?ri?um
• Rhymes: -o?ri?m

Noun

emporium n (plural emporia or emporiums, diminutive emporiumpje n)

1. (historical) emporium (trading centre)

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /em?po.ri.um/, [?m?p??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /em?po.ri.um/, [?m?p???ium]

Noun

emporium n (genitive empori? or empor?); second declension

1. emporium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p?r?.jum/

Noun

emporium n

1. emporium

Declension

Further reading

• emporium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

French

Noun

emporium m (plural emporiums or emporia)

1. emporium