Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thermopolium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ther-mopoli-um
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A place where food and hot drinks were sold.

Example Sentences

"About 80 thermopolia have been found at Pompeii, where residents could choose their edibles from containers set into street-front counters."

Etymology

From Latin thermopōlium.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: thermopōlium

Inflected Forms

thermopolia (plural)

Questions

What does thermopolium mean?: A place where food and hot drinks were sold.
Where does thermopolium come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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