soc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "soc"

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of sociology and social.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səʊʃ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (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.
   • 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

• Soc

Etymology 2

Clipping of society.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɑk/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒk

Noun

soc (plural socs)

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

   Are you part of any socs this year?

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/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• 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

   • 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

• 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

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sou²
    • Yale: sóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³⁵/

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/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

   gå på soc

   live on welfare

References

• soc in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)