Congest
/kənˈdʒɛst/noun
To crowd, block, or overfill with too much matter or traffic.
Did you know?Congest comes from Latin con- (“together”) + gerere (“to carry, bring”), the same root behind gesture and digest, so it originally meant carrying things into one place.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*gʰer-
“to carry, bear, hold”
Latin
Latin
gerere
“to carry, bear, bring, conduct”
Latin
Latin
congestus
“piled up, heaped together; crowded”
Middle English
English
congesten
“to heap together, accumulate”
Modern English
English
congest
“to crowd, block, or overfill”