soc

soc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "soc"

English

Etymology 1

From sociology.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səʊʃ/

  • Audio (UK)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /soʊʃ/
• Rhymes: -əʊʃ
• Homophone: sosh

Noun

soc (countable and uncountable, plural socs)

1. (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science.
2. (slang, countable) Upper class youth.
   • 1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, page 2:

     We get jumped by the Socs. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.

Alternative forms

• Soc

Etymology 2

From Middle English soke, sok, soc, from Old English sōcn. More at soke.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɒk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɑk/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Homophone: sock

Noun

soc (uncountable)

1. (UK, law, historical) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
   • 1869, George Norton, Commentaries on the History, Constitution, and Chartered Franchises of the City of London, page 96:

     As proprietors of the soc, the lords claimed a great number of fees and perquisites, payable by all classes of people, whether free or servile, who negotiated any affairs within the soc, and which no doubt formed in themselves a considerable source of revenue.

   • 2001, Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, A Concise History of the Common Law, page 96:

     Doubts have recently been cast upon Maitland's view that the Anglo-Saxon "sac and soc" included the right to hold a petty court, to compel tenants to attend it, and to take profits from it.

   Synonym: soke

2. (UK, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.

Derived terms

• soc and sac

Anagrams

• 'cos, CSO, Cos, OCS, OCs, OSC, SCO, co's, cos, cos.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔk/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

soc

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative spelling of sóc

Etymology 2

Compare soca (“trunk”).

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

1. stump

Etymology 3

Latin soccus (“slipper”). Compare Spanish zueco.

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

1. clog

   Synonym: esclop

Noun

soc m or f (plural socs)

1. souq

Further reading

• “soc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “soc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “soc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

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Chinese

Alternative forms

• so (in compounds)

Etymology

From clipping of English society.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sou²
    • Yale: sóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³⁵/

Noun

soc

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) society

   • 去到逸夫，現場有二十幾人企喺度，清一色嘅Soc Tee，擺明係唔知咩莊散會或者散活動。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     去到逸夫，现场有二十几人企喺度，清一色嘅Soc Tee，摆明系唔知咩庄散会或者散活动。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2018, 白告, 我的你的紅的 Taxi 2, page 110

     heoi³ dou³ jat⁶ fu¹, jin⁶ coeng⁴ jau⁵ ji⁶ sap⁶ gei² jan⁴ kei⁵ hai² dou⁶, cing¹ jat¹ sik¹ ge³ sou² ti¹, baai² ming⁴ hai⁶ m⁴ zi¹ me¹ zong¹ saan³ wui⁵ waak⁶ ze² saan³ wut⁶ dung⁶. [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (literally “pig's snout”) (compare Middle Irish socc, Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔk/

• Audio

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Noun

soc m (plural socs)

1. plowshare
2. (butchery) Boston butt

Further reading

• “soc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Cos

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish socc (“pig’s snout”), from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (“pig”) (compare Welsh hwch), from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˠɔk/

Noun

soc m (genitive singular soic, nominative plural soic)

1. snout, muzzle (of an animal)
2. nozzle
3. the projecting end of something, such as:

   soc camáin ― toe of a hurley

   soc eitleáin, roicéid, báid srl. ― nose of an airplane, rocket, boat etc.

   soc céachta ― plowshare

   soc inneonach ― horn of an anvil

Declension

Declension of soc

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative soc soic Vocative a shoic a shoca Genitive soic soc Dative soc soic

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an soc na soic Genitive an tsoic na soc Dative leis an soc don soc leis na soic

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
soc	shoc after an, tsoc	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “soc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “soc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “soc”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 666
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “soc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz (whence also Old English socc, Old Norse sokkr), from Latin soccus.

Noun

soc m

1. sock

Descendants

• Middle High German: soc, socke
  • Alemannic German: Sock, Socke, Sockä, Socka
  • Central Franconian: Sock
  • German: Socke (see there for further descendants)
  • Vilamovian: zok

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Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

soc

1. pow (the sound of a punch)

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sok/
• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

soc m (plural soci)

1. elder (plant)

Declension

Declension of soc

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) soc	socul	(niște) soci	socii
genitive/dative	(unui) soc	socului	(unor) soci	socilor
vocative	socule		socilor

Derived terms

• socată