A person who shares lodging or accommodations with another; a roommate or housemate.
Compound of 'co-' (together) and 'berger,' an archaic or dialectal word for lodger or boarder, related to 'berg' and housing terms.
Medieval cobergers in shared rooms helped spread news, skills, and diseases all at once—historians studying plague transmission realize that crowded shared housing was how pandemics spread so fast!
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