soccus

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, a kind of shoe), probably from Phrygian, Anatolian, or another substrate language from Asia Minor.

Pronunciation

Noun

soccus m (genitive soccī); second declension

  1. soccus, a kind of slipper particularly worn by comedic actors
  2. (metonymically) comedy

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative soccus soccī
Genitive soccī soccōrum
Dative soccō soccīs
Accusative soccum soccōs
Ablative soccō soccīs
Vocative socce soccī

Derived terms

  • socculus (diminutive)
    • Italian: zoccolo (see there for further descendants)
    • Portuguese: soclo
    • Sicilian: zòcculu
    • Spanish: zócalo

Descendants

References

  • soccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • soccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • soccus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • soccus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • soccus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • soccus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin