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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gallon, Imperial gallon, congiusnoun

    a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters

Wiktionary

  1. congiusnoun

    An ancient Roman liquid measure, being six sextarii or one eighth of an amphora; also used as a weight measure during the reign of Vespasian, being the weight of that volume of water.

Wikipedia

  1. Congius

    In Ancient Roman measurement, congius (pl. congii, from Greek konkhion, diminutive of konkhē, konkhos, "shellful") was a liquid measure that was about 3.48 litres (0.92 U.S. gallons). It was equal to the larger chous of the Ancient Greeks. The congius contained six sextarii.

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  1. congius

    A congius is an ancient Roman unit of liquid measurement equivalent to about six pints or 3.5 litres.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Congiusnoun

    a liquid measure containing about three quarts

  2. Congiusnoun

    a gallon, or four quarts

  3. Etymology: [L.]

Wikidata

  1. Congius

    In Ancient Roman measurement, congius was a liquid measure that was about 3.48 litres. It was equal to the larger chous of the Ancient Greeks. The congius contained six sextarii. Cato tells us that he was wont to give each of his slaves a congius of wine at the Saturnalia and Compitalia. Pliny relates, among other examples of hard drinking, that a Novellius Torquatus of Mediolanum obtained a cognomen by drinking three congii of wine at once: The Roman system of weights and measures, including the congius, was introduced to Britain in the 1st century by Emperor Claudius. Following the Anglo-Saxon invasions of the 4th and 5th century, Roman units were, for the most part, replaced with North German units. Following the conversion of England to Christianity in the 7th century, Latin became the language of state. From this time on the word "congius" is simply the Latin word for gallon. Thus we find the word congius mentioned in a charter of Edmund I in 946. In Apothecary Measures, the Latin Congius is used for the Queen Anne gallon of 231 cubic inches, also known as the US gallon.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of congius in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of congius in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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