sogro

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese sogro, from Late Latin socrus m, from Latin socer, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sogro m (plural sogros, feminine sogra, feminine plural sogras)

  1. father-in-law

References

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese sogro, from Late Latin socrus m, from Latin socer, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: so‧gro

Noun

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sogro m (plural sogros, feminine sogra, feminine plural sogras, metaphonic)

  1. father-in-law

Usage notes

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Sogro has two plural forms, both spelled sogros, but pronounced as sôgros and sógros. The former (os sôgros) means exclusively a group of two or more men (cf. English fathers-in-law), the latter (os sógros) is used for a group of both men and women (cf. English parents-in-law). Both are masculine nouns. The plural of sogra (mother-in-law) is a regular feminine noun (as sogras) and means mothers-in-law. This is one of the few Portuguese nouns that have a tripartite plural inflection, the others being avô, consogro, tio-avô, bisavô and other derived terms.

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:sogro.

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