suocero

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin socerus, variant of socer, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈswɔ.t͡ʃe.ro/[2]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔtʃero
  • Hyphenation: suò‧ce‧ro

Noun

suocero m (plural suoceri, feminine suocera)

  1. father-in-law

References

  1. ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 31: “il suocero” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  2. ^ suocero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)