socerus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.kɛ.rʊs]

socerus m (genitive socerī, feminine socera); second declension

1. alternative form of socer (“father-in-law”) (attested as early as Plautus)

• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: seûxoo, seûzro
  • Piedmontese: [ˈsøʒu]
• Italo-Romance:
  • Gallurese: socciaru
  • Italian: suocero, socero (Tuscan)
  • Sassarese: sozaru
  • Sicilian: sòggiru
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: suesar

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

• “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.