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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *swekuros, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros.
Pronunciation
Noun
socer m (genitive socerī); second declension
- father-in-law
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Synonyms
Descendants
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Further reading
- “socer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “socer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- socer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sŏcer”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 607