indusium

English

Etymology

From Latin indusium.

Noun

indusium (plural indusia)

1. (botany) A protecting membrane, especially that covering the developing spores of a fern.

Derived terms

• indusium griseum

Related terms

• indusial

See also

• sorus

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; the short vowel (ensured by Plautus) makes the connection to induō difficult.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈdu.si.um/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪ʊs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈdu.si.um/, [in̪ˈd̪uːs̬ium]

Noun

indusium n (genitive indusiī or indusī); second declension

1. a woman's undergarment
2. a woman's shirt, a frock
3. a garment, perhaps a shirt

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	indusium	indusia
genitive	indusiī indusī1	indusiōrum
dative	indusiō	indusiīs
accusative	indusium	indusia
ablative	indusiō	indusiīs
vocative	indusium	indusia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• indusiātus
• indusiārius
• indusiō

Descendants

• → Portuguese: indúsio

References

• “indusium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• indusium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “-uō, -uere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 642
• Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938–1954) “induō”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter
• “indusium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “indusium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin