sogro

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔɣɾʊ]

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

1. father-in-law

• “sogro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “sogro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “sogro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sogro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sogro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

• Hyphenation: so‧gro

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

1. father-in-law

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.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sogro.

• consogro