socerus
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
socerus m (genitive socerī, feminine socera); second declension
- Alternative form of socer (“father-in-law”) (attested as early as Plautus)
Descendants edit
- Gallo-Italic:
- Italo-Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: suesar
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sŏcer”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 15
Further reading edit
- “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.