Masculine

genro

son-in-law

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʒẽ.ʁu/
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese genrro, *gẽero (“son-in-law”), from Latin generum (“son-in-law”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵm̥ros, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵem-. Cognate with Galician xenro, Spanish yerno, Catalan, Occitan, and French gendre. Unrelated to gênero.

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