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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *swéḱuros}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈsɔ.kɛr]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɔː.t͡ʃer]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''socer''' ''m'' (genitive socerī); second declension^(Wiktionary)
+ Plautus also has a nominative ''socerus''.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)
+ Naevius has the dative ''socrī''.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*swekuros]], [[inh|ine-pro|*swéḱuros|t=father-in-law]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[sa|श्वशुर|tr=śváśura-|t=father-in-law]], [[grc|ἑκυρός|tr=hekurós|t=father-in-law]], [[lt|šešuras|t=father-in-law]] and [[goh|swehur|t=father-in-law]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) The feminine [[m|la|socrus|t=mother-in-law]] continues ⟨*swekrū-⟩, [[m|ine-pro|*sweḱrúh₂]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan dates it from Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008) Plautus uses it often, once with both forms in one scene (''Menaechmi'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is the father-in-law, the wife's or husband's father.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the plural it can be a father-in-law and his wife, the parents-in-law, as Andromache went to visit her ''socerōs'' in Virgil.^(OLD 2012) ''Socer magnus'' (or ''socer'' alone) is a husband's or wife's grandfather, as Festus reports.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “father-in-law”, in the plural “parents-in-law”.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Common in Plautus, also as ''socerus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of parents-in-law.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|father-in-law]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # ''(plural)'' Parents-in-law.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # ''(socer magnus)'' A husband's or wife's grandfather.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[socrus]]
+ * [[gener]]
+ * [[nurus]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}