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soca

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See also: SOCA, Soča, and șoca

English

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Etymology

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Blend of soul +‎ calypso

Noun

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soca (usually uncountable, plural socas)

  1. (music) A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.

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Anagrams

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Balinese

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Romanization

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soca

  1. Romanization of ᬲᭀᬘ
  2. Romanization of ᬰᭀᬘ

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (stock; stump). Compare French souche.

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Noun

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soca f (plural soques)

  1. trunk (of a tree)
    Synonym: tronc
  2. stump (remains of the base of a tree)
    Synonym: soc
  3. strain (a particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.)

Further reading

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Javanese

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Romanization

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soca

  1. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦕ

Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Gaulish *soucā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (to bend, to cut, to drive).

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Noun

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sōca m (genitive sōcae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) rope

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sōca sōcae
genitive sōcae sōcārum
dative sōcae sōcīs
accusative sōcam sōcās
ablative sōcā sōcīs
vocative sōca sōcae

Descendants

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  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: soga
    • Old French: soue
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Italo-Romance:

Occitan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (stock; stump). Compare French souche.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsuko/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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soca f (plural socas)

  1. trunk
  2. stump
  3. stock, in the sense of a grape vine, a cultivar

Dialectal variants

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Old Javanese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sanskrit शोचि (śoci, flame, glow), शुच् (śuc, to shine, glow).

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Noun

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soca

  1. precious stone, gem

Alternative forms

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Derived terms

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Noun

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soca

  1. eye

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • "soca" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

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Verb

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soca

  1. second-person singular imperative active of socati (to grieve)

Portuguese

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Verb

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soca

  1. inflection of socar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (stock; stump).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsoka/ [ˈso.ka]
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Syllabification: so‧ca

Noun

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soca f (plural socas)

  1. Young shoots of rice

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Sundanese

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Romanization

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soca

  1. Romanization of ᮞᮧᮎ