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conger

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See also: Conger and cóng'ér

English

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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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conger (plural congers)

  1. Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters
    Synonym: conger eel
    • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 3:
      The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
  2. (historical) A chain of booksellers.

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Latin

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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conger m (genitive congrī); second declension

  1. conger eel

Declension

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

singular plural
nominative conger congrī
genitive congrī congrōrum
dative congrō congrīs
accusative congrum congrōs
ablative congrō congrīs
vocative conger congrī

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References

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  • 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
  1. ^ Guido Bellatti Ceccoli, Franco Pierno (2006) “Talassozoonimi e terminologia dell'attività ittica d'influenza italiana nel dialetto arabo tunisino”, in Romance Philology (in Tunisian Arabic), volume 59, number 2, →JSTOR, page 225