suocera

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin socera, variant of socrus. Compare Sicilian soggira.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈswɔ.t͡ʃe.ra/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔtʃera
  • Hyphenation: suò‧ce‧ra

Noun

suocera f (plural suocere)

  1. female equivalent of suocero: mother-in-law
  2. nagging woman

References

  1. ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 32: “la suocera” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.