conger

== 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) Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters Synonym: conger eel (historical) A chain of booksellers. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == 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 conger eel ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). ==== Descendants ==== === 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