A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Socius,-ii (s.m.II), acc.sg. socium, dat.& abl. sg. socio, nom.pl. socii, gen.pl. sociorum, acc.pl. socios, dat. & abl.pl. sociis: fellow, comrade, intimate, crony, companion; associate, partner (as in business); ally, confederate; used as a synonym for sodalis,-is (s.m/f.III);

Abbrev. soc. (plural) socc.; Soc. (plural) Socc.

Societatis Regiae Socius, Fellow of the Royal Society (SRS).

Societas Regiae Sodalis, Fellow of the Royal Society (SRS).

- [moss] in sylvis abietinis, plantis putredine decompositis vel stercore vaccino insidens vetusto, socio Splachno gracili, haud raro occurrit (c. Mueller), in fir forests, situated on plants decomposed by putrefaction or on old cow dung, it does not rarely occur with its associate Splachnum gracilis.

- Societas Regia, the Royal Society: Societatis Regiae Socius, Fellow of the Royal Society (SRS); Societas Regiae Sodalis, Fellow of the Royal Society (SRS).

- regione frigide temperata, ad Myricariae et Abietis truncos, socio Zygodonte breviseto, in the cold-temperate region on trunks of Myricaria and Abies, [in association with Zygondon brevisetus].

- locis uliginosis et paludosis e planitie ad alpes sociis muscis aliis palustribus (Jaeg.Sauer.), in marshy and peaty places from the plains to the high mountains in association with other boggy mosses.

- AUCTORE RENATO DESFONTAINES, Instituti nationalis Scientiarum Galliae socio, necnon in Museo Historiae naturalis Parisiensi Botanices professore (Desf.), by the author Renatus Desfontaines, fellow of the national Institute of Sciences of France, and also professor of Botany in the Museum of Natural History at Paris.

(commercial, e.g. booksellers) associate, partner;

(Apud Ioannem Variscum & socios = In the shop of Giovanni Varisco and his partners) (Maxwell 1998).

- Londini: Typis J. E. TAYLOR ET SOC., LITTLE QUEEN STREET, Holborn (B&H), at London [Londinum,-i (s.n.II)]: at the printing house [typi] J. E. TAYLOR [nom.sg.] and Associates [partners; socii, nom.pl.], LITTLE QUEEN STREET, Holborn.