plinth, socle, base (a block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based); baseboard, footing, skirting, skirting board; frieze; public square, town square, plaza, zocalo; basement, shelf (mass of rock underlying sedimentary cover); One endpoint of a two-way connection used for interprocess communication
“En el zócalo de la columnita que habrán ustedes visto en el país, a la derecha, pusieron los artistas la divisa de la cortesana, que dice: virtus in arduis.” — At the base of the little column that you will have seen in the country, on the right, the artists put the courtier's emblem, which says: virtus in arduis.
Synonyms: base, pedestal, plinto, zoco, friso, rodapié, plaza
From Latin socculus, diminutive of soccus (“slipper”).