co-parent-in-law

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ parent-in-law or co-parent +‎ -in-law.

Noun

co-parent-in-law (plural co-parents-in-law)

1. A parent of one's son- or daughter-in-law, that is, a parent-in-law of one's son or daughter.
   • 1995, Janet Carsten, Stephen Hugh-Jones, About the house: Lévi-Strauss and beyond, pages 120, 132:

     the relation between co-parents-in-law focuses on the production of grandchildren […] the relation between co-parents-in-law as stabilized through shared grandchildren

Usage notes

• Rare in conversation, especially in the singular form, the generic "in-laws" is generally used, with context left to disambiguate. If grandchildren are born, the term co-grandparents may be used if the focus is on the relationship through the grandchildren rather than though the married couple.

Synonyms

• co-grandparent

Coordinate terms

• co-mother-in-law
• co-father-in-law

Related terms

• co-in-law
• co-brother-in-law
• co-sister-in-law
• co-grandmother-in-law
• co-grandfather-in-law
• co-parents (divorced or separated)

Translations

the parent of one's son- or daughter-in-law

• Azerbaijani: quda (az), düngür (dialectal)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 親家 / 亲家 (can³ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 親家 / 亲家 (zh) (qìngjiā)

• Greek: συμπέθερος (el) m (sympétheros), συμπεθέρα (el) f (sympethéra)
• Ilocano: abalayan
• Inupiaq: nulliġiik
• Italian: consuocero (it) m, consuocera (it) f
• Korean: 사돈 (ko) (sadon)
• Malay/Indonesian: besan (id), bisan (id)
• Portuguese: consogro (pt) m, consogra (pt) f
• Russian: сват (ru) m (svat), сва́тья (ru) f (svátʹja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прија f, пријан m

  Roman: prija (sh) f, prijan (sh) m

• Spanish: consuegro (es) m, consuegra (es) f
• Tagalog: balai, balae (tl), baysan
• Turkish: dünür (tr)
• Vietnamese: thông gia (vi)

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Translations to be checked

[parent of son-in-law, daughter-in-law, or either?]

• Inupiaq: ^{(please verify)} nulliq-nulliq
• Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ಭೀಗರು (bhīgaru)
• Pitjantjatjara: ^{(please verify)} inkilyi