English
congeries
Congeries comes from Latin congeriēs ‘a heap, mass, pile’, from gerō ‘carry’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gezō‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgerō‘carry’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcongerō‘to carry together, heap’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcongeriēs‘a heap, mass, pile’
- Englishearliest quotation 1876congeries
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gezō‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgerō‘carry’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcongerō‘to carry together, heap’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcongeriēs‘a heap, mass, pile’
- Englishearliest quotation 1876congeries
Earliest quotation: 1876, James Clerk Maxwell, On Action at a Distance: “And when the Newtonian philosophy gained ground in Europe,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
act, action, active, activity, actual, strategy, agency, actor, agent, suggest, agenda, essay, acre, activate, ambiguous, squat, agile, agony, ambiguity, agility, assay, antagonist, agitation, agrarian, axiom, digestion, radium, actuator, antagonism, agonist, agitate, antagonize, digestible, cogent, actuation, samaj, stratagem, inexact, glucagon, actuate, 139 more
through Latin gerō ‘carry’
register, suggestion, gesture, digest, belligerent, gestation, progesterone, ingestion, ingest, agger, gerund, gestion, 13 more
through Latin congerō ‘to carry together, heap’
Today it means
noun A collection or aggregation of disparate items.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- / congeries