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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=5th century BC, Herodotus|origins=grc ἔμπορος}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (5th-century BC Attic): /em.pó.ri.on/^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (4th-century AD Koine): /emˈpo.ri.on/^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (10th-century Byzantine): /emˈpo.ri.on/^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ἐμπόρῐον''' (empórion) ''n'' (genitive ἐμπορῐ́ου); second declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is derived from [[ἔμπορος|tr=émporos|t=merchant, traveller]] with the suffix [[m|grc|-ιον|tr=-ion]].^(Wiktionary)^(BDAG 2000)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Herodotus uses it for a trading station, and mentions the officials in charge of one.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was a place of trade, usually on the coast: Thucydides mentions trading stations on the Thracian coast and says Corinth provided a market for the Greeks.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE) At Athens ''τὸ ἐμπόριον'' was the exchange where merchants met.^(LSJ 1940) Demosthenes speaks of borrowing money there.^(LSJ 1940) An inscription from Macedonia uses it for a market centre of a district without a city, and Xenophon has the plural for merchandise.^(LSJ 1940)
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+ In the Septuagint it is a mart, and the Gospel of John speaks of “a house of trade”.^(Lust 2003)^(BDAG 2000) Latin borrowed it as [[m|la|emporium]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 5th century BC – Herodotus uses it for a trading station.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE)
+ * 5th century BC – Thucydides mentions trading stations in Thrace.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE)
+ * 4th century BC – Demosthenes uses it for the commercial harbour of Athens.^(LSJ 1940)
+ * 1st century AD – The Gospel of John speaks of “a house of trade”.^(BDAG 2000)
+ * 3rd century AD – An inscription from Macedonia uses it for a market centre.^(LSJ 1940)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A trading station, mart, commercial centre, often a port; an [[m|en|emporium]].^(LSJ 1940)^(CGL 2021)
+ # ''(Athens)'' The commercial harbour, the exchange.^(LSJ 1940)
+ # A market centre for a district without a city.^(LSJ 1940)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(plural)'' [[m|en|merchandise]].^(LSJ 1940)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[ἔμπορος|tr=émporos]]
+ * [[la|emporium]]
+ * [[en|emporium]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}