conger

See also: Conger and cóng'ér

English

Etymology

From Middle English congre, from Old French congre, from Latin conger, from Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *gong- (“a lump, rounded object”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋɡə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋɡɚ/
• Homophone: conga (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -ɒŋɡə(ɹ)

Noun

conger (plural congers)

1. Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters

   Synonym: conger eel

2. (historical) A chain of booksellers.

Derived terms

• conger moray
• daggertooth pike conger

 

Translations

eel

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: سيغاغ m (siḡaḡ), سنّور m (sənnur)

• Bulgarian: морска змиорка (morska zmiorka)
• Catalan: congre (ca) m
• Czech: úhořovec m
• Finnish: meriankerias
• French: congre (fr) m
• Galician: congro (gl) m
• German: Meeraal n, Seeaal (de) n
• Greek: μουγγρί (moungrí)
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵙⵉⵖⴰⵖ m (asiḡaḡ)
• Norman: andgulle f (Jersey), filerêsse f (Jersey)
• Ottoman Turkish: میغره (miğara)
• Spanish: congrio (es) m
• Tashelhit: asiɣaɣ m, ⴰⵙⵉⵖⴰⵖ m (asiḡaḡ)
• Turkish: miğri
• Walloon: congue m

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *gong- (“a lump, rounded object”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.ɡer/, [ˈkɔŋɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.d͡ʒer/, [ˈkɔn̠ʲd͡ʒer]

Noun

conger m (genitive congrī); second declension

1. conger eel

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	conger	congrī
Genitive	congrī	congrōrum
Dative	congrō	congrīs
Accusative	congrum	congrōs
Ablative	congrō	congrīs
Vocative	conger	congrī

Descendants

• Catalan: congre
• → English: conger
• French: congre
• Galician: congro
• Italian: grongo
• Portuguese: congro
• Spanish: congrio

References

• “conger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers