soc
English
editEtymology 1
editAbbreviation of sociology and social.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /səʊʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /soʊʃ/
- Rhymes: -əʊʃ
- Homophone: sosh
Noun
editsoc (countable and uncountable, plural socs)
- (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science.
- (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
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editsoc (plural socs)
- (UK, university slang) A society (circle, club, interest group).
- Are you part of any socs this year?
Derived terms
edit- -soc (society-name-forming suffix)
Etymology 3
editFrom Middle English soke, sok, soc, from Old English sōcn. More at soke.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsoc (uncountable)
- (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.
- (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
editAnagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology 1
editCompare soca (“trunk”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsoc m (plural socs)
Etymology 2
editInherited from Latin soccus (“slipper”). Compare Spanish zueco.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsoc m (plural socs)
Etymology 3
editBorrowed from Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”).
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsoc m or f (plural socs)
Etymology 4
editFrom 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
edit- sóc (pre-2016 spelling)
- so (archaic or dialectal)
- só (archaic or dialectal, pre-2016)
Pronunciation
editVerb
editsoc
Etymology 5
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsoc m (plural socs)
Further reading
edit- “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, 2024
- “soc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Chinese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom clipping of English society.
Pronunciation
edit- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: sou2
- Yale: sóu
- Cantonese Pinyin: sou2
- Guangdong Romanization: sou2
- Sinological IPA (key): /sou̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
editsoc
- (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.]
- 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 usage example)
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.]
French
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editsoc m (plural socs)
- plowshare
- (butchery) Boston butt
Further reading
edit- “soc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editIrish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish socc (“pig’s snout”), from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (“pig”) (compare Welsh hwch), from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsoc m (genitive singular soic, nominative plural soic)
- snout, muzzle (of an animal)
- nozzle
- 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
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Mutation
editradical | lenition | eclipsis |
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soc | shoc after an, tsoc |
not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- “soc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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
Old English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editsōc
Old High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *sokk.
Noun
editsoc m
Descendants
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editInterjection
editsoc
- pow (the sound of a punch)
Romanian
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsoc m (plural soci)
- elder (plant)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | soc | socul | soci | socii | |
genitive-dative | soc | socului | soci | socilor | |
vocative | socule | socilor |
Derived terms
editSwedish
editEtymology 1
editClipping of socialtjänsten (“the social services”).
Noun
editsoc
- (colloquial) the social services
- Synonym: socialtjänsten
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editClipping of socialbidrag (“welfare”).
Noun
editsoc
- (colloquial) welfare (government financial assistance)
- Synonym: socialbidrag
- gå på soc
- live on welfare
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