sogro

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔɣɾʊ]

Noun

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

1. father-in-law

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sogro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sogro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sogro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sogro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sogro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ɡɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ɡɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ɡɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ɡɾu/ [ˈso.ɣɾu]

• Hyphenation: so‧gro

Noun

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

1. father-in-law

Usage notes

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sogro.

Related terms

• consogro