socrus

From Proto-Italic *swekrus, earlier *swekrū, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂ (“mother-in-law”).

• socera (nonstandard)
• socra (late, proscribed)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.krʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.krus]

socrus f (genitive socrūs); fourth declension

1. mother-in-law

Fourth-declension noun.

• cōnsocer
• socer

See alternative forms.

Masculine counterpart to socra. Attested in late glosses and inscriptions from North Africa.^[1]

socrus m (genitive socrī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. father-in-law

• socra

• “socrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “socrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “socrus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.