soccus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian, Anatolian, or another substrate language from Asia Minor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsok.kus/, [ˈs̠ɔkːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsok.kus/, [ˈsɔkːus]

Noun

soccus m (genitive soccī); second declension

1. soccus, a kind of slipper particularly worn by comedic actors
2. (metonymically) comedy

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	soccus	soccī
Genitive	soccī	soccōrum
Dative	soccō	soccīs
Accusative	soccum	soccōs
Ablative	soccō	soccīs
Vocative	socce	soccī

Derived terms

• socculus (diminutive)
  • Italian: zoccolo (see there for further descendants)
  • Portuguese: soclo
  • Sicilian: zòcculu
  • Spanish: zócalo
    • → English: zocalo

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: zocco
    • → English: zocco
  • Sicilian: zoccu, Zoccu
• Old French: socque
  • French: socque
  • Walloon: soke
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: soc
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Romansch: socca
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: zoco, zoca
    • Portuguese: soco
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: zueco
• → Proto-Germanic: *sukkaz (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: socco

References

• “soccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “soccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• soccus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• soccus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “soccus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “soccus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin