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7-letter words (2 found)

CONGIUS,SOUCING,

6-letter words (5 found)

COIGNS,COSIGN,COSING,COUSIN,INCOGS,

5-letter words (15 found)

CIONS,COIGN,COINS,CONUS,CUING,ICONS,INCOG,INCUS,ONCUS,SCION,SCOUG,SONIC,SUING,UNCOS,USING,

4-letter words (33 found)

CIGS,CION,COGS,COIN,CONI,CONS,GINS,GIOS,GNUS,GONS,GUNS,ICON,INGO,INGS,IONS,NOGS,NOUS,NUGS,ONUS,SCOG,SCUG,SIGN,SING,SNIG,SNOG,SNUG,SONG,SUGO,SUNG,SUNI,UNCI,UNCO,UNIS,

3-letter words (39 found)

CIG,CIS,COG,CON,COS,GIN,GIO,GIS,GNU,GON,GOS,GUN,GUS,ING,INS,ION,IOS,ISO,NIS,NOG,NOS,NUG,NUS,OIS,ONS,OUS,SIC,SIG,SIN,SOC,SOG,SON,SOU,SUG,SUI,SUN,UGS,UNI,UNS,

2-letter words (17 found)

GI,GO,GU,IN,IO,IS,NO,NU,OI,ON,OS,OU,SI,SO,UG,UN,US,

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Definitions and meaning of congius

congius

Etymology

From Latin congius, from Ancient Greek κογχίον (konkhíon), from κόγχη (kónkhē) and κόγχος (kónkhos, “mussel shell”) + -ίον (-íon, “-y: forming diminutives”).

Noun

congius (plural congiuses or congii)

  1. (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 10 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 3.3 L although differing slightly over time.
  2. (historical) A Roman unit of mass instituted by Vespasian equivalent to about 3.3 kg, the weight of a congius of water.

Synonyms

  • Roman gallon, gallon (Roman contexts); congy, conge (obsolete)

Coordinate terms

  • (unit of liquid volume): lingula (1/288 congius), cyathus (1/72 congius), acetabulum (1/48 congius), quartarius (1/24 congius), hemina (1/12 congius), sextarius (⅙ congius), urna (4 congii), amphora (8 congii), culeus (160 congii)

Related terms

  • congiaria
  • congiary

Anagrams

  • soucing

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κογχίον (konkhíon), from κόγχη (kónkhē) and κόγχος (kónkhos, “mussel shell”) + -ίον (-íon, “-y: forming diminutives”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.ɡi.us/, [ˈkɔŋɡiʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.d͡ʒi.us/, [ˈkɔn̠ʲd͡ʒius]

Noun

congius m (genitive congiī or congī); second declension

  1. (historical) congius, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 3.3 L
  2. (historical) congius, a Roman unit of mass equivalent to about 3.3 kg, the weight of a congius of water

Declension

Second-declension noun.

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Coordinate terms

  • (unit of liquid volume): lingula (1/288 congius), cyathus (1/72 congius), acetabulum (1/48 congius), quartarius (1/24 congius), hemina (1/12 congius), sextarius (⅙ congius), urna (4 congii), amphora (8 congii), culeus (160 congii)

Descendants

  • English: congius
  • French: conge
  • → Ancient Greek: κόγγιον (kóngion)
  • Italian: cogno, congio
  • Portuguese: côngio
  • Spanish: congio

References

  • “congius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “congius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • congius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • congius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “congius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “congius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “congius”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 137b

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