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 Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsɔk.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɔk.kus] === Noun === soccus m (genitive soccī); second declension soccus, a kind of slipper particularly worn by comedic actors (metonymic) comedy ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== socculus (diminutive) Italian: zoccolo (see there for further descendants) Portuguese: soclo Sicilian: zòcculu Asturian: zuécalu, zruecu Spanish: zócalo→ English: zocalo ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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