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English
Etymology
From Latin indusium.
Noun
indusium (plural indusia)
- (botany) A protecting membrane, especially that covering the developing spores of a fern.
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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; the short vowel (ensured by Plautus) makes the connection to induō difficult.
Pronunciation
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).
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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