emporium

Meaning

Noun

• A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.
• A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; a shop specializing in particular goods.
• A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory ().
• The brain.

Origin

• . is derived from εμ- (variant of εν-) + πόρος (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per-), modelled after ἐν πόρῳ.
• Sense 4 (“the brain”) alludes to the organ as the place where many nerves or nerve impulses meet.
• The plural form emporia is from the Latin emporia.