different between nuc vs soc

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nju?k/
• Hyphenation: nuc
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophones: neuk, nuke

Noun

nuc (plural nucs)

1. (beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
   • 1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (page 110)

     I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week […]

Alternative forms

• nuke

Anagrams

• UNC, cun, unc

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• nucu

Etymology

From Latin nux, nucis.

Noun

nuc m (plural nuts)

1. walnut tree

Related terms

• nucã

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin nux, nucis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. In Romanian, the names of nuts or fruits are usually feminine while the names of the corresponding trees or bushes are masculine; compare p?r, prun, alun, m?r, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuk/

Noun

nuc m (plural nuci)

1. walnut (tree)

Declension

Derived terms

• nuc?
• nucar
• nuc?oar?

Related terms

• nucet

References

• nuc in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Tapachultec

Noun

nuc

1. water

Usage notes

• This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists is nog.

References

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.

English

Etymology 1

From sociology.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /so??/

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

From Middle English soke, sok, soc, from Old English s?cn, from Proto-Germanic *s?kniz.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s?k/

Alternative forms

• sock, soke

Noun

soc

1. (Britain, law, obsolete) 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.
2. (Britain, obsolete) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
3. (Britain, 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

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s?k/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

soc

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative spelling of sóc

Etymology 2

Compare soca (“trunk”).

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

1. stump

Etymology 3

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

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

1. clog

   Synonym: esclop

Etymology 4

Noun

soc m or f (plural socs)

1. souq

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.

Chinese

Etymology

From English society.

Pronunciation

Noun

soc

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) university society

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare Middle Irish socc, Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout," from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k/

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

1. plowshare
2. (butchery) Boston butt

Further reading

• “soc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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): /s??k/

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:

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• “soc” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “soc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “soc” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 666.
• "soc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz (whence also Old English socc, Old Norse sokkr), from Latin soccus.

Noun

soc m

1. sock

Descendants

• Middle High German: soc, socke
  • Alemannic German: Sockä
  • Central Franconian: Sock
  • German: Socke (see there for further descendants)
  • Vilamovian: zok

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin sab?cus, variant of samb?cus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sok/
• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

soc m (plural soci)

1. elder (plant)

Declension

Derived terms

• socat?