soc

English Online Dictionary. What means soc‎? What does soc mean?

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of sociology and social.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səʊʃ/
• (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.

Alternative forms

• Soc

Etymology 2

Clipping of society.

Noun

soc (plural socs)

1. (UK, university slang) A society (circle, club, interest group).

Derived terms

• -soc (society-name-forming suffix)

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

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

   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, sac and soc

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology 1

Compare soca (“trunk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔk]

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔk]

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

• assoc

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔk]

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

• sóc (pre-2016 spelling)
• so (archaic or dialectal)
• só (archaic or dialectal, pre-2016)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsok]

Verb

soc

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

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsok]

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

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

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, 2024
• “soc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 嫂, (in compounds) so

Etymology

From clipping of English society.

Pronunciation

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 usage example)

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/

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

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

Mutation

Further reading

• “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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːk/

Verb

sōc

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

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sokk.

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

soc

1. pow (the sound of a punch)

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sok/
• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

soc m (plural soci)

1. elder (plant)

Declension

Derived terms

• socată

Swedish

Etymology 1

Clipping of socialtjänsten (“the social services”).

Noun

soc

1. (colloquial) the social services

   Synonym: socialtjänsten

Derived terms

• socfall

Etymology 2

Clipping of socialbidrag (“welfare”).

Noun

soc

1. (colloquial) welfare (government financial assistance)

   Synonym: socialbidrag

References

• soc in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)