indusium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin indusium. === Noun === indusium (plural indusia) (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): [ɪnˈdʊ.si.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [inˈduː.s̬i.um] === Noun === indusium n (genitive indusiī or indusī); second declension a woman's undergarment a woman's shirt, a frock a garment, perhaps a shirt ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== indusiātus indusiārius indusiō ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: indusio, indugio → 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), “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