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soc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "soc"

English

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Etymology 1

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Abbreviation of sociology and social.

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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.
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of society.

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soc (plural socs)

  1. (UK, university slang) A society (circle, club, interest group).
    Are you part of any socs this year?
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  • -soc (society-name-forming suffix)

Etymology 3

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

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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.
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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Compare soca (“trunk”).

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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

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

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soc m (plural socs)

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

Etymology 3

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

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soc m or f (plural socs)

  1. souq

Etymology 4

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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/?”)

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soc

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

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soc m (plural socs)

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

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Chinese

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From clipping of English society.

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soc

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) society

French

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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-.

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soc m (plural socs)

  1. plowshare
  2. (butchery) Boston butt

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Irish

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Etymology

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

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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

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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

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Mutated forms of soc
radical lenition eclipsis
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.

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Old English

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sōc

  1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of sacan

Old High German

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From Proto-West Germanic *sokk.

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soc m

  1. sock

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  • Middle High German: soc, socke

Portuguese

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Onomatopoeic.

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soc

  1. pow (the sound of a punch)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

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soc m (plural soci)

  1. elder (plant)

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative soc socul soci socii
genitive-dative soc socului soci socilor
vocative socule socilor

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1

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Clipping of socialtjänsten (“the social services”).

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soc

  1. (colloquial) the social services
    Synonym: socialtjänsten
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of socialbidrag (“welfare”).

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soc

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

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