socera

Italian

Noun

socera f (plural socere)

1. (Tuscan, Roman) Alternative form of suocera

Anagrams

• Rosace, ascerò, ascreo, ceraso, cerosa, cosare, coserà

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ke.ra/, [ˈs̠ɔkɛrä]

Noun

socera f (genitive socerae, masculine socerus); first declension

1. Alternative form of socrus (“mother-in-law”) (attested as early as Plautus)

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	socera	socerae
genitive	socerae	socerārum
dative	socerae	socerīs
accusative	soceram	socerās
ablative	socerā	socerīs
vocative	socera	socerae

Descendants

• Friulian: suesare
• Italian: suocera
• Ligurian: seûxoa, seûzra
• Sicilian: soggira

References

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

Further reading

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