consogro

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros

Proto-Italic *swekuros

Latin socer

Latin cōnsocerum

Old Galician-Portuguese consogro

Portuguese consogro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese consogro, from Latin cōnsocerum.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõˈso.ɡɾu/

 

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

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

Noun

consogro m (plural consogros, feminine consogra, feminine plural consogras)

1. co-father-in-law (father of one’s son- or daughter-in-law)

Usage notes

Consogro has two plural forms, both spelled consogros, but pronounced as consôgros and consógros. The former (os consôgros) means exclusively a group of two or more men, the latter (os consógros) is used for a group of both men and women. Both are masculine nouns. The plural of consogra (mother-in-law) is a regular feminine noun (as consogras). This is one of the few Portuguese nouns that have a tripartite plural inflection, the others being avô, sogro, tio-avô, bisavô and other derived terms.

Related terms

• sogro

Further reading

• “consogro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “consogro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026