socle

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

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

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.

• (a plinth or pedestal): zocco, zocle

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

• IPA^(key): /sɔkl/

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socle m (plural socles)

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

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

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

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