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English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of sociology and social.

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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.
    Synonym: soke
    • 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.
  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

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology 1

Compare soca (“trunk”).

Pronunciation

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

  1. stump (of a tree)
  2. block (of an anvil)
  3. block, chock (for preventing movement of a wheel)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

  1. clog (wooden shoe)
    Synonym: esclop
  2. shoe (of a brake)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

soc m or f (plural socs)

  1. souq

Etymology 4

From Latin sum. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is there an etymological source for the final /k/?”)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

soc

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ser
  2. first-person singular present indicative of ésser

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of solc (“furrow; groove”)

Further reading

Chinese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From clipping of English society.

Pronunciation

Noun

soc

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) society

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

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

  1. plowshare
  2. (butchery) Boston butt

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sokk.

Noun

soc m

  1. sock

Descendants

  • Middle High German: soc, socke

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

soc

  1. pow (the sound of a punch)

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

Pronunciation

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

Swedish

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Etymology 1

Clipping of socialtjänsten (“the social services”).

Noun

soc

  1. (colloquial) the social services
    Synonym: socialtjänsten
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of socialbidrag (“welfare”).

Noun

soc

  1. (colloquial) welfare (government financial assistance)
    Synonym: socialbidrag
    gå på soc
    live on welfare

References

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