emporiumn.

Brit.

/ɪmˈpɔːrɪəm/,

/ɛmˈpɔːrɪəm/, U.S.

/ᵻmˈpɔriəm/,

/ɛmˈpɔriəm/

Inflections: Plural emporia, emporiums.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin emporium.

Etymology: < classical Latin emporium centre of trade, business quarter of a city, market town < ancient Greek ἐμπόριον trading station, market, factory < ἔμπορος merchant ( < ἐμ- , variant (before a labial) of ἐν- en- prefix² + πόρος way (see pore n.¹), after ἐν πόρῳ en route, at sea) + -ιον , suffix forming nouns. Compare empory n.

a. A city, region, or locality where items are bought or sold; esp. a major or principal centre of commerce.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun]

staple1436

estaple1550

emporium?1575

empory1600

monopole1602

mart1611

scale1613

market1615

mkt.1896

?1575 J. Hooker Discr. Excester sig. A.ij Excester or Exeter is a famouse and ancient Cittie, beeing the Metropole and Emporium of the west parts of England.

1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xiii. 12/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II [Waterford]..is the cheefest emporium in a manner of all that land.

1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. iii. iii. 269 Paris, London, small Cottages, in Cæsars time, now most noble Emporiums.

a1705 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (1713) ii. 253 The best Emporium and Mart of this Part of the world.

1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. vii. 227 That York was formerly the chief emporium, place of trade, or mart-town in the north of England is certain.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. ii. 33 The emporium or general market for the goods of all the different countries whose trade it carries on.

1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 44 Perhaps they [sc. the Italian cities] would have remained much longer the emporia of the world.

1869 Buckle's Hist. Civilisation Eng. (new ed.) III. v. 340 Emporiums of commerce.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 8 Egypt..deigned to open an emporium at Naucratis for the ships and commerce of the Greeks.

1921 Rotarian June 294/1 Barcelona became the emporium of Southern Europe.., the rival of Genoa and Venice.

2008 N. Wimmer tr. R. Bolaño 2666 i. 20 In 1927 or 1928..the city [sc. Buenos Aires] was a meat emporium and the refrigerator ships left port laden with meat.

b. An establishment for traders conducting business in a foreign country; a merchant company's trading station. Now historical.The more common term is factory n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > place authorized for foreign merchants

factory1582

staple1617

emporium1727

treaty-port1863

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiv. 20 Half a League farther up..the Dutch Emporium stands.

1785 in App. to India Courier Extraordinary (1787) VI. 119 The want of some safe and certain establishment to the eastward, as an Emporium to the merchants of this place, exposes every private adventurer in the article of opium to the greatest risques.

1870 Chambers's Encycl. (new ed.) II. 639/2 Carthage..was founded, according to legend,..almost nine centuries before the Christian era, but more probably (like the Anglo-Indian Calcutta) it originated in an emporium or factory established by the colonial merchants of Utica, and the capitalists of the mother-city Tyre.

1902 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 31 Jan. 179/2 In 1707 the capital was transferred by an able Viceroy from Dacca to Murshidabad, which was close to the British emporium of Kasimbazar.

2008 J. Allen Port Essington vi. 105/2 One successful British answer came with the establishment of Singapore by Raffles in 1819, and following upon its early success, arose the plan for a similar commercial emporium on the north coast of Australia.

c. A shop, a warehouse; esp. a large shop selling a wide range or variety of goods; (with distinguishing word) a specialist shop.The definition in N.E.D. (1891) reads: ‘Pompously applied to: a shop, warehouse’, but the intention in more recent use is often conscious archaism, evoking an impression of shops of the past.Now the usual sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop

shopc1390

seldc1450

cheap-house1606

bursea1661

swag1676

repository1725

store1731

warehouse1754

sale-shop1757

shoppie1773

emporium1803

mercantile1984

1803 F. W. Blagdon Paris as it Was II. lii. 180 It would be resented as an almost unpardonable offence to term this emporium of taste a boutique or shop.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxii. 307 Emporiums of splendid dresses.

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 163 But I find the shop now expanded into a magnificent emporium.

1907 Truth (Sydney) 26 May 1/5 A red-headed boss of rouseabouts in a Pitt-street rag emporium.

1939 Collier's 23 Sept. 20/1 He read the note and looked me over and gave me a job racking pool balls in his west side Sports Emporium.

1948 Life 26 Apr. 61 Beat feet to the nearest emporium and ask to see the sharp new shirts the Coke Crowd thinks are hyper.

1971 N.Y. Times 12 May 38/4 So far, Mr. Thauer has not noticed any feminist impact at the counters of his toy emporium. ‘The customers still ask for boy toys and girl toys.’

2000 D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 211 The 80,000-square-foot REI emporium in Seattle. It's a store that sells leisure stuff to people who spend their leisure hours strenuously.

2. figurative and in extended use; esp. (a) a place where a specified thing is present in abundance; (b) a meeting-place.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > [noun] > place of meeting or assembly

meeting-place1553

place (point, port, etc.) of rendezvous1556

meeting1598

emporium1683

rallying place1759

rallying point1759

meeting-ground1840

parish pump1840

point1967

1683 J. Norris Murnival of Knaves 27 Rome! the grand Mart of Pious Frauds, Th' Emporium of Pimps, Whores and Bauds.

1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. lxii. 99 I must own the rencontre did not fill me full of a pure and lasting joy; but Paris is the emporium of pleasure; and the demon of gloom cannot live in it to his own satisfaction.

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxv. 475 The rich emporium of the Scotch coal measures.

1852 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. xiii. 241 Her house in London was a perfect emporium of escaped state criminals.

1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lxvi. 466 She [sc. Alexandria] was an emporium for the interchange of ideas and speculations.

1894 Wales July 97/2 This [security]..induced the cautious Druids to fix their emporium in Anglesey.

1953 R. Chandler Long Good-bye iii. 18 It was five o'clock of a wet March evening when he walked into my down-at-heels brain emporium.

1968 Winnipeg Free Press 19 Oct. (Weekend Mag.) 21 His room is a balloon emporium, a glittering gala of evanescence. Balloons everywhere.

2007 Vanity Fair Oct. 211/2 VH1, that freak emporium of damaged goods.

3. In extended use: the brain, or a central part of it, considered as the meeting place of major nerves or nervous sensations. Cf. sensorium n. 1a. Now disused.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > as (supposed) seat of faculty

cella1393

cellulea1400

emporium1683

organ1806

brain centre1844

1683 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Two Disc. Soul of Brutes i. iv. 25 Further, we shewed that those Spirits, the Authors of either function, not only within the narrow Channels of the Nerves, but also in the large meeting places or Emporiums of the Head, have peculiar paths, to wit, the medullary tracts, as it were intrinsick Nerves, most curiously stretch'd forth here and there.

1702 J. Purcell Treat. Vapours 75 The Raving, is produc'd by a Mixture of Heterogeneous Particles with the Spirits, which fermenting with them, make their Motion violent, and irregular in the Emporium of the Brain.

1722 Mem. Lit. (ed. 2) III. 102 Which made me think, that in a true Catalepsy..the Seat of that Disease must be in that inward Part of the Brain, wherein all Sensations are performed, which is called Emporium.

1778 C. Erskine tr. H. D. Gaubius Inst. Medicinal Pathol. 280 Vigilance..is produced when so great agitation happens of the animal emporium from internal disturbances, that the organs of the senses, and voluntary motions, cannot be relaxed, or the nervous influence made to cease.

1877 R. F. Battye What is Vital Force? 136 Observing, then, that the emporium or brain itself reflects the entire product of all the senses by an impressible power.

1908 J. B. Pettigrew Design in Nature I. 190 They [sc. the organs of sense] are the gateways through which everything outside of ourselves enters the great nervous emporium, the brain.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	emporium
释义	emporiumn. Brit. /ɪmˈpɔːrɪəm/, /ɛmˈpɔːrɪəm/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpɔriəm/, /ɛmˈpɔriəm/ Inflections: Plural emporia, emporiums. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin emporium. Etymology: < classical Latin emporium centre of trade, business quarter of a city, market town < ancient Greek ἐμπόριον trading station, market, factory < ἔμπορος merchant ( < ἐμ- , variant (before a labial) of ἐν- en- prefix² + πόρος way (see pore n.¹), after ἐν πόρῳ en route, at sea) + -ιον , suffix forming nouns. Compare empory n. 1. a. A city, region, or locality where items are bought or sold; esp. a major or principal centre of commerce. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] staple1436 estaple1550 emporium?1575 empory1600 monopole1602 mart1611 scale1613 market1615 mkt.1896 ?1575 J. Hooker Discr. Excester sig. A.ij Excester or Exeter is a famouse and ancient Cittie, beeing the Metropole and Emporium of the west parts of England. 1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xiii. 12/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II [Waterford]..is the cheefest emporium in a manner of all that land. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. iii. iii. 269 Paris, London, small Cottages, in Cæsars time, now most noble Emporiums. a1705 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (1713) ii. 253 The best Emporium and Mart of this Part of the world. 1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. vii. 227 That York was formerly the chief emporium, place of trade, or mart-town in the north of England is certain. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. ii. 33 The emporium or general market for the goods of all the different countries whose trade it carries on. 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 44 Perhaps they [sc. the Italian cities] would have remained much longer the emporia of the world. 1869 Buckle's Hist. Civilisation Eng. (new ed.) III. v. 340 Emporiums of commerce. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 8 Egypt..deigned to open an emporium at Naucratis for the ships and commerce of the Greeks. 1921 Rotarian June 294/1 Barcelona became the emporium of Southern Europe.., the rival of Genoa and Venice. 2008 N. Wimmer tr. R. Bolaño 2666 i. 20 In 1927 or 1928..the city [sc. Buenos Aires] was a meat emporium and the refrigerator ships left port laden with meat. b. An establishment for traders conducting business in a foreign country; a merchant company's trading station. Now historical.The more common term is factory n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > place authorized for foreign merchants factory1582 staple1617 emporium1727 treaty-port1863 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiv. 20 Half a League farther up..the Dutch Emporium stands. 1785 in App. to India Courier Extraordinary (1787) VI. 119 The want of some safe and certain establishment to the eastward, as an Emporium to the merchants of this place, exposes every private adventurer in the article of opium to the greatest risques. 1870 Chambers's Encycl. (new ed.) II. 639/2 Carthage..was founded, according to legend,..almost nine centuries before the Christian era, but more probably (like the Anglo-Indian Calcutta) it originated in an emporium or factory established by the colonial merchants of Utica, and the capitalists of the mother-city Tyre. 1902 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 31 Jan. 179/2 In 1707 the capital was transferred by an able Viceroy from Dacca to Murshidabad, which was close to the British emporium of Kasimbazar. 2008 J. Allen Port Essington vi. 105/2 One successful British answer came with the establishment of Singapore by Raffles in 1819, and following upon its early success, arose the plan for a similar commercial emporium on the north coast of Australia. c. A shop, a warehouse; esp. a large shop selling a wide range or variety of goods; (with distinguishing word) a specialist shop.The definition in N.E.D. (1891) reads: ‘Pompously applied to: a shop, warehouse’, but the intention in more recent use is often conscious archaism, evoking an impression of shops of the past.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop shopc1390 seldc1450 cheap-house1606 bursea1661 swag1676 repository1725 store1731 warehouse1754 sale-shop1757 shoppie1773 emporium1803 mercantile1984 1803 F. W. Blagdon Paris as it Was II. lii. 180 It would be resented as an almost unpardonable offence to term this emporium of taste a boutique or shop. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxii. 307 Emporiums of splendid dresses. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 163 But I find the shop now expanded into a magnificent emporium. 1907 Truth (Sydney) 26 May 1/5 A red-headed boss of rouseabouts in a Pitt-street rag emporium. 1939 Collier's 23 Sept. 20/1 He read the note and looked me over and gave me a job racking pool balls in his west side Sports Emporium. 1948 Life 26 Apr. 61 Beat feet to the nearest emporium and ask to see the sharp new shirts the Coke Crowd thinks are hyper. 1971 N.Y. Times 12 May 38/4 So far, Mr. Thauer has not noticed any feminist impact at the counters of his toy emporium. ‘The customers still ask for boy toys and girl toys.’ 2000 D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 211 The 80,000-square-foot REI emporium in Seattle. It's a store that sells leisure stuff to people who spend their leisure hours strenuously. 2. figurative and in extended use; esp. (a) a place where a specified thing is present in abundance; (b) a meeting-place. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > place of meeting or assembly meeting-place1553 place (point, port, etc.) of rendezvous1556 meeting1598 emporium1683 rallying place1759 rallying point1759 meeting-ground1840 parish pump1840 point1967 1683 J. Norris Murnival of Knaves 27 Rome! the grand Mart of Pious Frauds, Th' Emporium of Pimps, Whores and Bauds. 1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. lxii. 99 I must own the rencontre did not fill me full of a pure and lasting joy; but Paris is the emporium of pleasure; and the demon of gloom cannot live in it to his own satisfaction. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxv. 475 The rich emporium of the Scotch coal measures. 1852 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. xiii. 241 Her house in London was a perfect emporium of escaped state criminals. 1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lxvi. 466 She [sc. Alexandria] was an emporium for the interchange of ideas and speculations. 1894 Wales July 97/2 This [security]..induced the cautious Druids to fix their emporium in Anglesey. 1953 R. Chandler Long Good-bye iii. 18 It was five o'clock of a wet March evening when he walked into my down-at-heels brain emporium. 1968 Winnipeg Free Press 19 Oct. (Weekend Mag.) 21 His room is a balloon emporium, a glittering gala of evanescence. Balloons everywhere. 2007 Vanity Fair Oct. 211/2 VH1, that freak emporium of damaged goods. 3. In extended use: the brain, or a central part of it, considered as the meeting place of major nerves or nervous sensations. Cf. sensorium n. 1a. Now disused. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > as (supposed) seat of faculty cella1393 cellulea1400 emporium1683 organ1806 brain centre1844 1683 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Two Disc. Soul of Brutes i. iv. 25 Further, we shewed that those Spirits, the Authors of either function, not only within the narrow Channels of the Nerves, but also in the large meeting places or Emporiums of the Head, have peculiar paths, to wit, the medullary tracts, as it were intrinsick Nerves, most curiously stretch'd forth here and there. 1702 J. Purcell Treat. Vapours 75 The Raving, is produc'd by a Mixture of Heterogeneous Particles with the Spirits, which fermenting with them, make their Motion violent, and irregular in the Emporium of the Brain. 1722 Mem. Lit. (ed. 2) III. 102 Which made me think, that in a true Catalepsy..the Seat of that Disease must be in that inward Part of the Brain, wherein all Sensations are performed, which is called Emporium. 1778 C. Erskine tr. H. D. Gaubius Inst. Medicinal Pathol. 280 Vigilance..is produced when so great agitation happens of the animal emporium from internal disturbances, that the organs of the senses, and voluntary motions, cannot be relaxed, or the nervous influence made to cease. 1877 R. F. Battye What is Vital Force? 136 Observing, then, that the emporium or brain itself reflects the entire product of all the senses by an impressible power. 1908 J. B. Pettigrew Design in Nature I. 190 They [sc. the organs of sense] are the gateways through which everything outside of ourselves enters the great nervous emporium, the brain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1575
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