English

sockprint

From sock + print.

A compound of sock + print

Ancient Greek συγχίς ‘a kind of shoe’

Latin soccus ‘a light shoe or slipper, buskin’

Old English socc ‘sock, light shoe, slipper’

Middle English socke

English sock

Latin imprimō ‘to press into, imprint’

Middle English emprinten ‘to impress, imprint’

Middle English *printen

English print

Today it means

noun The impression left by a sock.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / sockprint