suegro

Ladino

Alternative forms

  • esfuegro, sfuegro

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish suegro, from Late Latin socrus m, from Latin socer, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂.

Noun

suegro m (Hebrew spelling סואיגרו, feminine suegra)[1]

  1. father-in-law
    • 2013 November 30, Jacobo Sefamí, Miriam Moscona, Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 90:
      Le dan aentender ke asemeja esto a el yerno del rey ke kada dia lo iva a vijitar a su suegro i el le dizia: “Tal koza izistes anoche”.
      They explain that it resembles this like the king's son-in-law [in] that every day he went to visit his father-in-law and tell him, ‘What a thing [that] you insist upon tonight.’

References

  1. ^ suegro”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin socrus m, from Latin socer, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂.

Noun

suegro m (plural suegros)

  1. father-in-law

Descendants

  • Ladino: suegro, סואיגרו
  • Spanish: suegro

References

  • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “suegro”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 483

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish suegro, from Late Latin socrus m, from Latin socer, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsweɡɾo/ [ˈswe.ɣ̞ɾo]
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  • Rhymes: -eɡɾo
  • Syllabification: sue‧gro

Noun

suegro m (plural suegros, feminine suegra, feminine plural suegras)

  1. father-in-law (spouse's father)

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