indusium

From Latin indusium.

indusium (plural indusia)

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

• indusium griseum

• indusial

• sorus

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈdʊ.si.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪ˈd̪uː.s̬i.um]

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• indusiātus
• indusiārius
• indusiō

• → Italian: indusio, indugio
• → Portuguese: indúsio

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• 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) “induō”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 695
• “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