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thermopolium

thermopolium noun: a place where food and hot drinks were sold.

thermopolium: a place where food and hot drinks were sold
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Noun

thermopolium (plural thermopolia)

  1. (Ancient-Rome, historical) A place where food and hot drinks were sold.
    • About 80 thermopolia have been found at Pompeii, where residents could choose their edibles from containers set into street-front counters.2020 December 26, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Snail, Fish and Sheep Soup, Anyone? Savory New Finds at Pompeii”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of thermopolium

pluralthermopolia

Origin of thermopolium

From Latin thermopōlium.

Questions about thermopolium

What does thermopolium mean?
Thermopolium means a place where food and hot drinks were sold.
What part of speech is thermopolium?
Thermopolium is a noun.
What is the plural of thermopolium?
The plural of thermopolium is thermopolia.

Words near thermopolium in the dictionary

  1. thermoplasty
  2. thermopleion
  3. thermopleions
  4. thermopneumatic
  5. Thermopolis
  6. thermopolium
  7. thermopolymer
  8. thermopolymerizable
  9. thermopolymerization
  10. thermopolymerize
  11. thermopolymerized

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