socerus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsɔ.kɛ.rʊs] === 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: [ˈsøʒu] Italo-Romance: Gallurese: socciaru Italian: suocero, socero (Tuscan, Romanesco) Sassarese: sozaru Sicilian: sòggiru Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian: suesar === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sŏcer”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 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.