socle

English

A socle (low plinth or pedestal)

Etymology

From French socle, from Italian zoccolo (“wooden shoe”), from Latin socculus, diminutive of soccus (“sock”). Doublet of zoccolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊkəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊkəl

Noun

socle (plural socles)

1. (architecture) A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork.
2. (architecture) A plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall.
3. (algebra, ring theory) The sum of the minimal normal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R.
4. (group theory) The subgroup generated by the minimal normal subgroups of a given group.

Synonyms

• (a plinth or pedestal): zocco, zocle

Translations

a plinth or pedestal

• Belarusian: цо́каль m (cókalʹ), п'едэста́л m (pʺjedestál)
• Bulgarian: цокъл (bg) m (cokǎl), пиедестал (bg) m (piedestal)
• Catalan: sola (ca) f, sòcol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 台座 (zh)

• Esperanto: soklo (eo)
• French: socle (fr) m
• Ido: soklo (io)
• Italian: zoccolo (it) m
• Russian: пьедеста́л (ru) m (pʹjedestál), цо́коль (ru) m (cókolʹ)
• Swedish: sockel (sv) c

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian zoccolo (“wooden shoe”), from Latin socculus, diminutive of soccus (“sock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔkl/

• Audio:

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Noun

socle m (plural socles)

1. plinth, pedestal, socle
2. basis, foundation, core idea
3. (geology) basement (mass of rock underlying sedimentary cover)

Descendants

• → Dutch: sokkel
• → English: socle
• → German: Sockel (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese: soclo

Further reading

• “socle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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