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

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, 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.

Derived terms

• conger moray
• daggertooth pike conger

Translations

eel

• 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)
• Norman: andgulle f (Jersey), filerêsse f (Jersey)
• Ottoman Turkish: میغره (miğara)
• Polish: konger m
• 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): [ˈkɔŋ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔn̠ʲ.d͡ʒer]

Noun

conger m (genitive congrī); second declension

1. conger eel

Declension

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

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: congre
• Old French: congre
  • French: congre
  • Walloon: congue
  • → Middle English: congre
    • English: conger
• Old Galician-Portuguese: congro
  • Galician: congro
  • Portuguese: congro
• Italian: grongo, gronco, gongro (literary)
  • → Tunisian Arabic: قرنقو (grangu), قرينقو (grīngu), قرونقرو (grūngru, “conger, Conger conger”)
• 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