thermopolium

See also: Thermopolium

English

A thermopolium in Ostia

Etymology

From Latin thermopōlium.

Noun

thermopolium (plural thermopolia)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A place where food and hot drinks were sold.
   • 2020 December 26, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Snail, Fish and Sheep Soup, Anyone? Savory New Finds at Pompeii”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     About 80 thermopolia have been found at Pompeii, where residents could choose their edibles from containers set into street-front counters.

Translations

eating establishment

• Catalan: termopoli m, thermopolium m
• French: thermopolium (fr) m
• German: Thermopolium n
• Italian: thermopolium (it) m
• Spanish: termopolio m

Further reading

• thermopolium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Un thermopolium à Herculanum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin thermopolium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛʁ.mɔ.pɔ.ljɔm/

Noun

thermopolium m (plural thermopolia or thermopoliums)

1. (historical) thermopolium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θερμοπώλιον (thermopṓlion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tʰer.moˈpoː.li.um/, [t̪ʰɛrmɔˈpoːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ter.moˈpo.li.um/, [t̪ermoˈpɔːlium]

Noun

thermopōlium n (genitive thermopōliī or thermopōlī); second declension

1. thermopolium (place where food and hot drinks were sold)
2. (Contemporary Latin) a restaurant, café

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thermopōlium	thermopōlia
Genitive	thermopōliī thermopōlī1	thermopōliōrum
Dative	thermopōliō	thermopōliīs
Accusative	thermopōlium	thermopōlia
Ablative	thermopōliō	thermopōliīs
Vocative	thermopōlium	thermopōlia

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

Descendants

• → Italian: termopolio
• → Catalan: termopoli, thermopolium
• → English: thermopolium
• → French: thermopolium
• → German: Thermopolium
• → Spanish: termopolio

References

• Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary