pomeria

pomerium +‎ -a.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊ̆ˈmɪə.ɹɪ.ə/, /pɒ-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /poʊˈmɛ.ɹi.ə/
• Hyphenation: po‧me‧ria

pomeria

1. plural of pomerium.
   • 1722, Joseph Bingham, “Of Cemeteries,or Burying-Places, with an Enquiry, How and When the Custom of Burying in Churches First Came In”, in Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church. [...], volume X (Giving an Account of Funeral Rites, or the Custom and Manner of Burying the Dead, Observed in the Ancient Church. With a Particular Enquiry, How and When the Custom of Burying in Churches First Came In), London: Printed for R. Knaplock at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Churchyard, OCLC 634190471, book XXIII (Of Funeral Rites, or the Custom and Manner of Burying the Dead, Observed in the Ancient Church), page 7:

     Nay Sidonius Apollinaris aſſures us farther, that the Place where St. Peter was buried, tho' there was then a Church built over it, was ſtill in his Time, An. 470. without the Pomœria, or Space before the Walls of Rome. For ſpeaking of his Journey to Rome, he ſays, before ever he came at the Pomœria of the City, he went and ſaluted the Church of the Apoſtles, which ſtood in the Via Triumphalis.

• Emporia, emporia, meropia, proemia

pōmēria

1. nominative plural of pōmērium
2. accusative plural of pōmērium
3. vocative plural of pōmērium