English
socketlike
From socket + -like.
Formed from socket + -like
Proto-Indo-European *sewH- ‘to give birth’
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Vulgar Latin *soccus ‘soccus, a kind of slipper particularly worn…’
Old French soc ‘plowshare’
Anglo-Norman soket ‘spearhead’
Middle English socket
English socket
Today it means
adj Resembling or characteristic of a socket.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “socketlike”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / socketlike