Congius is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 146 anagrams from letters in congius (cginosu).
1350-1400; Middle English Latin, alteration of Greek konchíon, equivalent to kónch(ē) conch + -ion diminutive suffix
Perhaps "metreta" and "congius" should be swapped in this sentence, but it was left as is.
This is furnished with brazen buckets, each holding about a congius.
congius Ripensis tells us, that the same restriction was imposed by the Lacedæmonians on their Helots and all domestic animals.
One metreta, a Greek measure, equalled about nine English gallons, and a congius contained about six pints.
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