nurus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === nura (post-classical) *norum, *nora (Vulgar Latin) === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *snusós, remade into an u-stem likely by influence of socrus, -ūs (“mother in law”). The first -u- is unexpected, as original *-u- before -r- arising from *-s- would have been expected to lower to *-o- (cf. serō < *sish₁-). The expected outcome is nevertheless reflected in most Romance descendants (eg. Spanish nuera, Italian nuora, etc.), although they could be secondary, and shifted from the attested -u- by influence of other female kinship terms such as socrus or soror (“sister”). The variant ending in -a, also found in Romance descendants but attested already in the Appendix Probi, while also conceivably secondary, reflects a Proto-Indo-European *snus-éh₂ also reflected in Proto-Germanic *snuzō, Proto-Slavic *snъxà and Sanskrit स्नुषा (snuṣā́). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnʊ.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnuː.rus] === Noun === nurus f (genitive nurūs); fourth declension daughter-in-law granddaughter-in-law (transferred sense) young married woman, young lady ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== see: nura, *nora, and *norum === References === === Further reading === “nurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "nurus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “nurus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.