socio
English
Etymology
Shortening.
Noun
socio (uncountable)
- (informal) At an institute of education, a class where sociology is taught.
- (informal) The discipline of sociology.
- 1999, Lynn Freed, The bungalow:
- Just as I stood apart from the sort of Jewish women who majored in psych and socio at the local university and announced their engagements just before graduation.
Anagrams
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
- IPA(key): [soˈt͡sio]
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: so‧ci‧o
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔ.sjo/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: so‧cio
Further reading
- “socio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin socius (“partaking, associated; partner, associate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyo- (“companion”), derived from the root *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Compare also the inherited soccio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.t͡ʃo/
- Rhymes: -ɔtʃo
- Hyphenation: sò‧cio
Noun
socio m (plural soci)
Latin
Etymology
From socius.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈso.ki.oː/, [ˈs̠ɔkioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈso.t͡ʃi.o/, [ˈsɔːt͡ʃio]
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: sociate
References
- “socio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “socio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- socio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈsoθjo/ [ˈso.θjo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsosjo/ [ˈso.sjo]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -oθjo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -osjo
- Syllabification: so‧cio
Further reading
- “socio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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