emporium

See also: Emporium

English

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. (often used facetiously) A shop that offers a wide variety of goods.

   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

• Danish: varehus n
• Dutch: warenhuis (nl) n
• Finnish: tavaratalo (fi)
• German: Emporium (de) n, Emporion n
• Greek: εμπορείο (el) n (emporeío), εμπορικό (el) n (emporikó)

  Ancient Greek: ἐμπόριον n (empórion)

• Irish: ollmhargadh m
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• Italian: emporio (it)
• Latin: taberna f
• Manx: yl-happ m, ard-vargey m
• Portuguese: empório (pt) m
• Spanish: emporio (es)
• Tagalog: emporyo

a department store

• Dutch: warenhuis (nl) n
• Finnish: tavaratalo (fi)
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• Greek: εμπορικό (el) n (emporikó)
• Russian: универмаг (ru) m (univermag)

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

• Dutch: marktplaats (nl) m
• Finnish: markkinapaikka
• Greek: αγορά (el) f (agorá), εμπορείο (el) n (emporeío)
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• Polish: emporium (pl) n
• Portuguese: empório (pt) m
• Tagalog: emporyo

Anagrams

• pomerium, proemium

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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)

1. (historical) emporium (trading centre)

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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): /emˈpo.ri.um/, [ɛmˈpɔriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /emˈpo.ri.um/, [emˈpɔːrium]

Noun

emporium n (genitive emporiī or emporī); second declension

1. emporium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	emporium	emporia
Genitive	emporiī emporī1	emporiōrum
Dative	emporiō	emporiīs
Accusative	emporium	emporia
Ablative	emporiō	emporiīs
Vocative	emporium	emporia

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

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Polish

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

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

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