conger

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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋɡə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋɡɚ/

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• Homophone: conga (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -ɒŋɡə(ɹ)

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.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔŋ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔn̠ʲ.d͡ʒer]

conger m (genitive congrī); second declension

1. conger eel

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

• “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