Conf. gen.?

[Dieter.Stern]

>Ahoj.
>
>I'm reading an old German-language paper by Oblak.  The abbreviation "conf.
>gen." is liberally sprinkled throughout, generally followed by nouns that
>are clearly genitive in form.
>
>Could somebody be so kind as to unabbreviate "conf. gen." for me, or point
>me to a commonly available list of abbreviations and their full forms?  I
>take "gen." to be Latin for 'genitive', but "conf."?

Perhaps Latin confer 'compare'?

Dieter Stern

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