Latin

Alternative forms

• socerus

Noun

socer m ‎(genitive socerī); second declension

1. father-in-law
2. vocative singular of socer

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

¹May also be socere.

Related terms

• cōnsocer
• socrus

Descendants

References

• socer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• socer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “socer”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill