socle

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socle

/ˈsoʊkəl/

Rhymes with -əʊkəl

Where it comes from

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

noun socles · zocle

A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork.
Similar: zocco
A plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall.
The sum of the minimal normal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R.
The subgroup generated by the minimal normal subgroups of a given group.

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noun a plinth or pedestal

中文	台座
Français	socle
Italiano	zoccolo
Русский	пьедеста́л pʹjedestál, цо́коль cókolʹ

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@misc{socle_2026,
  title = {socle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/socle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}