"daughter-in-law" in seven languages
Meaningdaughter-in-law
Spanish
nuera
/ˈnweɾa/
fem.inherited
French
belle-fille
/bɛlfij/
fem.other source · belle 'beautiful' + fille 'daughter'
Also 'stepdaughter'; formally bru.
Italian
nuora
/ˈnwɔra/
fem.inherited
Portuguese
nora
/ˈnɔɾɐ/
fem.inherited
Romanian
noră
/ˈnorə/
fem.inherited
Catalan
nora
/ˈnɔɾə/
fem.inherited
English
daughter-in-law
/ˈdɔtɚ ɪn lɔ/
native English · Middle English doughter in lawe
plural: daughters-in-law
English → Italiandaughter-in-lawnuoraNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
*NŎRA (Classical NURUM)‘daughter-in-law’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Latin NURUS was remade in speech as a first-declension *NŎRA, and its open o broke regularly: Spanish nuera, Italian nuora. French again chose the courtesy compound.