grongo

Italian

Alternative forms

gronco, gongro (literary)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

grongo m (plural gronghi)

conger, conger eel (Conger conger)

Descendants

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

References

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

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

Anagrams

gongro

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.