grongo

Italian edit

Alternative forms edit

gronco, gongro (literary)

Etymology edit

From Latin conger (“conger eel”), from Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈɡron.ɡo/
Rhymes: -onɡo
Hyphenation: grón‧go

Noun edit

grongo m (plural gronghi)

conger, conger eel (Conger conger)

Descendants edit

→ Tunisian Arabic: قرنقو (grangu), قرينقو (grīngu), قرونقرو (grūngru, “conger, Conger conger”)^[1]

References edit

^ 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

Further reading edit

grongo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Conger conger on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams edit

gongro

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