emporium Latin · revision 3799

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Plautus|origins=grc ἐμπόριον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɛmˈpɔ.ri.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [emˈpɔː.ri.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''emporium''' ''n'' (genitive emporiī or emporī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἐμπόριον|tr=empórion|t=trading station]],^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|grc|ἔμπορος|tr=émporos|t=merchant, traveller]], from [[m|grc|ἐν|tr=en|t=in]] and [[m|grc|πόρος|tr=póros|t=journey]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has “at the market and in the meat-market”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a centre of trade, the business quarter of a city, as Cicero's journey through the emporium of Puteoli and Livy's emporium outside the Porta Trigemina, paved with stone.^(OLD 2012) It also meant a trading town itself.^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval Latin it also meant a fair.^(Köbler 2010) English ''emporium'' was borrowed in the 1580s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero passes through the emporium of Puteoli.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy writes of the emporium at Rome.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1580s – English ''emporium'' is borrowed.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A trading place, [[m|en|market]], [[m|en|mart]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A market town.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|fair]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[emporīticus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|emporium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}