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

conger (plural congers)

1. Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters

   Synonym: conger eel

2. (historical) A chain of booksellers.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.ɡer/, [ˈkɔŋɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.d͡ʒer/, [ˈkɔn̠ʲd͡ʒer]

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