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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?

English

Alternative forms

• soppe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *s?pan? (“to sup”). More at sup; compare soup.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

sop (plural sops)

1. Something entirely soaked.
2. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.

   • He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
3. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
   • 1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey:

     The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.

   • That agreement, with its lofty promises of “one country, two systems,” was a fig leaf, as most knew at the time — a sop to Western consciences guilty for condemning the people of Hong Kong to their ultimate fate as wards of Beijing. What is happening today is exactly what was predicted and exactly what Chinese leaders intended. Our outrage, while appropriate, is also embarrassing.

4. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
5. (Appalachia) Gravy.
6. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
7. A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

Derived terms

• sippet

Translations

Verb

sop (third-person singular simple present sops, present participle sopping, simple past and past participle sopped)

1. (transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
2. (intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

Derived terms

• sop up

Translations

Anagrams

• OPS, OPS+, OPs, POS, POs, PSO, ops, pos

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sop (“soup”), from Old Dutch *sop, from Proto-Germanic *supp?. In the sense “water with soap” it is a shortening of zeepsop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?p/
• Hyphenation: sop
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopje n)

1. water with soap, usually for washing
2. the sea in terms of somebody who will sail on it

3. (now dialectal) Archaic form of soep.

Derived terms

• afwassop
• in zijn eigen sop gaar laten koken
• soppen
• zeepsop

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sop

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch sop

Noun

sop (first-person possessive sopku, second-person possessive sopmu, third-person possessive sopnya)

1. soup

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish sop(p), from Latin stuppa (“coarse flax, tow”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??p?/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /s?ap?/ (as if spelled sap)

Noun

sop m (genitive singular soip, nominative plural soip)

1. wisp, small bundle (of straw, etc.)
2. straw bedding; (straw) bed

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

sop (present analytic sopann, future analytic sopfaidh, verbal noun sopadh, past participle soptha)

1. (transitive) light with straw

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “sop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• "sop" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “sop” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “sop” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Noun

sop

1. small amount of food
   • c. 1370-1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman

     And if he soupeth, eteth but a sop

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English soap.

Noun

sop

1. cleaner

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopke)

1. juice
2. soup

Derived terms

• sinesappelsop

Further reading

• “sop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

West Uvean

Etymology

From English soap.

Noun

sop

1. soap

References

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, ?ISBN