socerus

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Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ke.rus/,

Noun

socerus m (genitive socerī, feminine socera); second declension

Alternative form of socer (“father-in-law”) (attested as early as Plautus)

Descendants

Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: seûxoo, seûzro
- Piedmontese:
Italo-Romance:
- Gallurese: socciaru
- Italian: suocero, socero (Tuscan)
- Sassarese: sozaru
- Sicilian: soggiru
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: suesar

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sŏcer”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 15

Further reading

“socerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
socerus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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