英语词汇emporium的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

emporium. Since the 16th century, emporium has been used to describe principal centers of trade, the word deriving from the Greek emporion, a place where merchants come together, the Greek for merchant being emporos, which was formed from the prefix em, “in,” and poros, “travel”—the first mer- chants being traveling salesmen. Early on we had the words emporial, pertaining to an emporium, and emporentic, of or pertaining to trade, both now obsolete, but emporium wasn’t applied to a single store until well into the 19th century. Today the latter meaning has almost entirely replaced the former, and though it is considered grandiloquent by some, emporium is frequently used for a large store selling a great variety of articles and having a luxurious air.

词汇	emporium
词源	emporium. Since the 16th century, emporium has been used to describe principal centers of trade, the word deriving from the Greek emporion, a place where merchants come together, the Greek for merchant being emporos, which was formed from the prefix em, “in,” and poros, “travel”—the first mer- chants being traveling salesmen. Early on we had the words emporial, pertaining to an emporium, and emporentic, of or pertaining to trade, both now obsolete, but emporium wasn’t applied to a single store until well into the 19th century. Today the latter meaning has almost entirely replaced the former, and though it is considered grandiloquent by some, emporium is frequently used for a large store selling a great variety of articles and having a luxurious air.
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