socrus

From Proto-Italic *swekrus, earlier *swekrū, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂ (“mother-in-law”).

• socera (nonstandard)
• socra (late, proscribed)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.krus/, [ˈs̠ɔkrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.krus/, [ˈsɔːkrus]

socrus f (genitive socrūs); fourth declension

1. mother-in-law

Fourth-declension noun.

• cōnsocer
• socer

See alternative forms.

Masculine counterpart to socra. Attested in late glosses and inscriptions from North Africa.[1]

socrus m (genitive socrī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. father-in-law

• socra

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: socru
  • Romanian: socru
• Italo-Romance:
  • Neapolitan:

    suecru (Apulia)

    suocro (Basilicata, Campania)

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: socru, sorgu
• North Italian:
  • Romansch: sir, sör
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: suire m
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: sogre
  • Occitan: sògre
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: suegru
  • Galician: sogro
  • Portuguese: sogro
  • Spanish: suegro

• “socrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “socrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• socrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.