pantechnicon

• n. 家具トラック；家具倉庫

19世紀初頭にロンドンにあった大型家具販売店Pantechniconから。pan-, all, all, -tech, skill, technologyからなり、語源的にはtechnology, textileと同じ。 この販売店では宅配サービスを行っていたが、後にfurniture trolleyへと一般化した。

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- ‘all’ and Greek tekhnikón, the neuter form of tekhnikós ‘artistic’, 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.

彼らは出国時に家具を倉庫に保管した。