suegra

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin socra, from Latin socrus.

Noun

suegra f (plural suegres)

1. mother-in-law

   La mi suegra ye la mairi'l mio maríu ― My mother-in-law is the mother of my husband

Related terms

• suegru

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish suegra (“mother-in-law”), from Late Latin socra, from Latin socrus, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂, whence German Schwieger/schwieger-.

Noun

suegra f (Hebrew spelling סואיגרה, masculine suegro)

1. mother-in-law
   • 2000, La Lettre Sépharade‎^[1], numbers 1–19, La Lettre Sépharade, page 19:

     Dayinda no ay un dia ke me kazi, i ya me ize madre, suegra i nona!

     There still isn’t a day [when] I married, and I already became a mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother!

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin socra, from Latin socrus, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂, whence German Schwieger/schwieger-.

Noun

suegra f (plural suegras)

1. mother-in-law

Descendants

• Ladino: suegra, סואיגרה
• Spanish: suegra

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “suegra”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 483

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish suegra (“mother-in-law”), from Late Latin socra, from Latin socrus, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂, whence German Schwieger/schwieger- and Russian Свекровь (Svekrovʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsweɡɾa/ [ˈswe.ɣ̞ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -eɡɾa
• Syllabification: sue‧gra

Noun

suegra f (plural suegras, masculine suegro, masculine plural suegros)

1. mother-in-law (spouse's mother)
2. (El Salvador, historical, colloquial) one Salvadoran colón; the coin of that value
3. heel, butt (of a loaf of bread)

Derived terms

• espantasuegras
• matasuegras

Related terms

• consuegra
• suegro

Further reading

• “suegro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10