pantechnicon

英 [p?n'tekn?k(?)n]

GRE

pantechnicon 家具搬運車

來自Pantechnicon,19世紀初倫敦大型家具商場，來自pan-,全部，所有，-tech,技藝，技術，詞源同technology,textile.該商場提供送貨上門服務，后詞義通用化為家具搬運車。

pantechnicon: pantechnicon: [19] The original Pantechnicon was a huge complex of warehouses, wine vaults, and other storage facilities in Motcomb Street, in London’s Belgravia. Built in 1830 and supposed to be fireproof, it was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1874. It seems originally to have been intended to be a bazaar, and its name was coined from the prefix pan- ‘a(chǎn)ll’ and Greek tekhnikón, the neuter form of tekhnikós ‘a(chǎn)rtistic’, denoting that all sorts of manufactured wares were to be bought there.

But it was its role as a furniture repository that brought it into the general language. Removal vans taking furniture there came to be known as pantechnicon vans, and by the 1890s pantechnicon was a generic term for ‘removal vans’.
=> architect, technical

1. They've stored their furniture in a pantechnicon while they go abroad.: 他們出國時把家具送到倉庫保管起來。