emporium的词源

英文词源

emporium (n.)

1580s, "place of trade, mart," from Latin emporium, from Greek emporion "trading place, market," from emporos "merchant," originally "traveler," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) + poros "passage, voyage," related to peirein "to pass through" (see port (n.1)). Greek emporos in the "merchant" sense meant especially "one who trades on a large scale, usually but not necessarily by sea" [Buck], as opposed to kapelos "local retail dealer, shopkeeper." Properly, a town which serves as the commercial hub of a region, but by 1830s American English "Grandiloquently applied to a shop or store" [Craigie].

中文词源

emporium：大型商城

em-, 进入，使。-por, 通行，港口，贸易，词源同port. 原指贸易的港口，后指商城。

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emporium：商场，商业中心

古雅典有一个出名的地方叫Emporion，商人会集此处进行交易，实际上相当于一个交易所。Emporion源于希腊语emporos（商人，旅行者），因为最早的商人本身就是旅行推销员。英语emporium 一词即源于此。自16世纪以来，emporium 一直被用以指“商场”或“商业中心”，但直到19世纪才被作为单数名词使用。