soc-, associationからの省略形, Football Association, football association, football leagueからの省略形, -er, 名詞の接尾辞.
英語の語源
soccer
soccer: [19] Soccer was coined from Association football, a term introduced around 1870 for football played according to the rules of the Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football). The suffix -er was commonly used as a more-or-less meaningless addition to nouns in British public-school and university slang of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (footer ‘football’ was formed in the same way). Originally, in the 1890s, socker vied with soccer as the word’s spelling.
soccer (n.)
1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc.
例文
1. Soccer in the States has never taken off in a big way.
サッカーは米国ではこれまで大きな発展を遂げたことがない。
2.The Zambian game is much more aggressive than European soccer .
ザンビアのこのスポーツはヨーロッパサッカーよりずっと激しい。
3.Below are printed the answers to the Brain of Soccer 1993 quiz.
以下に印刷されているのは1993年の「頭脳サッカー」小テストの答えです。
4.A mate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool.
私の友人がリバプールチームでボールを蹴ったことがあります。
5.He called Moore "one of the immortals of soccer ".