soccus Latin · revision 33596

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc σύκχος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsɔk.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɔk.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''soccus''' ''m'' (genitive soccī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|σύκχος|tr=súkkhos|t=a kind of shoe]],^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) a word that Wiktionary takes from Phrygian or another language of Asia Minor;^(Wiktionary) the OLD compares [[m|grc|συγχίς|tr=sunkhís]], a word for shoes from Phrygia,^(OLD 2012) and Köbler calls it a loanword from the East.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and Lewis & Short find it first in Plautus, in the ''Trinummus'', ''Epidicus'', ''Bacchides'', ''Persa'' and ''Cistellaria''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a low-heeled, loose-fitting shoe or slipper worn by the Greeks:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of the slippers a man had on.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Comic actors wore it, and so it became a symbol of comedy, as opposed to the tragic [[cothurnus]]:^(OLD 2012) Horace says Plautus runs across the stage in a loose sock.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is a slipper or sock,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin a wooden sole, a sandal or slipper, and a sock or stocking.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of Greek slippers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a man's slippers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of the comic actor's shoe.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – A wooden sole, sandal; a sock or stocking.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A low-heeled, light [[m|en|shoe]] or [[m|en|slipper]] worn by the Greeks.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The shoe of comic actors; hence [[m|en|comedy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A wooden sole, a [[m|en|sandal]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|sock]], stocking.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[soccātus]]

+ * [[soccifer]]

+ * [[socculus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cothurnus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Niermeyer has a separate medieval ''soccus'' (also ''succus'', ''socus''), a ploughshare, of Celtic origin.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}