emporium

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɛmˈpɔːɹ.i.əm/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪm-/
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• General-American: /ɛmˈpoɹ.i.əm/
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• General-American: /ɪm-/
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• /ɛmˈpoː(ə)ɹ.i.əm/ without the horse–hoarse merger
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• CMU ARPABET: EH2 M P AO1 R IY0 AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin emporium (“trading station; business district in a city; market town”), from Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (empórion, “factory, trading station; market”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant, trader; traveller”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming nouns). ἔμπορος is derived from ἐμ- (em-) (variant of ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in; within’)) + πόρος (póros, “journey; passageway”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth”)), modelled after ἐν πόρῳ (en pórōi, “at sea; en route”). Sense 4 (“the brain”) alludes to the organ as the place where many nerves or nerve impulses meet. Not related to English empire.

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Serbo-Croatian: emporij — city or region which is a major trading centre
• Spanish: emporio — city or region which is a major trading centre
• Dutch: marktplaats — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Finnish: markkinapaikka — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Greek: αγορά (agorá) — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Greek: εμπορείο (emporeío) — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Ancient Greek: ἐμπόριον (empórion) — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Latin: emporium — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Manx: margey — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Polish: emporium — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Portuguese: empório — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Serbo-Croatian: emporij — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Tagalog: emporyo — place within a city for commerce and trading — see also marketplace
• Danish: varehus — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Dutch: warenhuis — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Finnish: tavaratalo — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• German: Emporion — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• German: Emporium — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Greek: εμπορείο (emporeío) — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Greek: εμπορικό (emporikó) — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Ancient Greek: ἐμπόριον (empórion) — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Irish: ollmhargadh — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Italian: emporio — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Manx: ard-vargey — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Manx: yl-happ — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Portuguese: empório — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Russian: универмаг (univermag) — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Spanish: emporio — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Tagalog: emporyo — shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale
• Serbo-Croatian: emporij — business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country