emporium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin emporium (“trading station; business district in a city; market town”), from Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (empórion, “factory, trading station; market”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant, trader; traveller”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming nouns). ἔμπορος is derived from ἐμ- (em-) (variant of ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in; within’)) + πόρος (póros, “journey; passageway”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth”)), modelled after ἐν πόρῳ (en pórōi, “at sea; en route”). Sense 4 (“the brain”) alludes to the organ as the place where many nerves or nerve impulses meet. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɛmˈpɔːɹ.i.əm/, /ɪm-/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɛmˈpoɹ.i.əm/, /ɪm-/ Hyphenation: em‧por‧i‧um (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɛmˈpoː(ə)ɹ.i.əm/ === Noun === emporium (plural emporiums or emporia) (also figuratively) A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace. (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. (historical) A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term). (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 ἐμπόριον (empórion, “trading station”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant", "traveller", literally "incomer"”), from ἐν (en, “in”) and πόρος (póros, “journey”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɛmˈpoːriʏm/ Hyphenation: em‧po‧ri‧um Rhymes: -oːriʏm === Noun === emporium n (plural emporia or emporiums, diminutive emporiumpje n) (historical) emporium (trading centre) == French == === Noun === emporium m (plural emporiums or emporia) emporium === Further reading === “emporium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === 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 Latin) IPA(key): [ɛmˈpɔ.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [emˈpɔː.ri.um] === Noun === emporium n (genitive emporiī or emporī); second declension 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 === Learned borrowing 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): /ɛmˈpɔ.rjum/ Rhymes: -ɔrjum Syllabification: em‧po‧rium === Noun === emporium n emporium ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === emporium in Polish dictionaries at PWN