emporium

English

Etymology

From Latin emporium (“trading station, market town, market”); from Ancient Greek ἐμπορεῖον (emporion, “trading station”), from ἔμπορος (emporos, “merchant", "traveller", literally "incomer"”), from ἐν (en, “in”) and πόρος (poros, “journey”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌɛmˈpɔɹiəm/, SAMPA: /%Em"pQ.ri.@m/

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.

Translations

a shop that offers a wide variety of goods

Dutch: warenhuis (nl) n. Finnish: tavaratalo (fi) Greek: εμπορείο (el) (emporío) n., εμπορικό (el) (emporikó) n.

Irish: ollmhargadh (ga) m. Latin: taberna (la) f. Manx: yl-happ (gv) m., ard-vargey (gv) m.

a department store

Dutch: warenhuis (nl) n. Finnish: tavaratalo (fi)

Greek: εμπορικό  (el) (emporikó) n.

a market place or trading centre, particularly of an ancient city

Dutch: marktplaats (nl) m. Finnish: markkinapaikka (fi)

Greek: αγορά (el) (agorá) f., εμπορείο (el) (emporío) n. Polish: emporium (pl) n.

Anagrams

• pomerium

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Polish

Etymology

From Latin emporium (“trading station, market town, market”); from Ancient Greek ἐμπορεῖον (emporion, “trading station”), from ἔμπορος (emporos, “merchant", "traveller", literally "incomer"”), from ἐν (en, “in”) and πόρος (poros, “journey”)

Noun

emporium n.

1. emporium

Declension

    declension of emporium

	singular	plural
nominative	emporium	emporia
genitive	emporium	emporiów
dative	emporium	emporiom
accusative	emporium	emporia
instrumental	emporium	emporiami
locative	emporium	emporiach
vocative	emporium	emporia