indusium

English

Etymology

From Latin induēre.

Noun

indusium (plural indusia)

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

Related terms

• indusial

See also

• sorus

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Latin

Etymology

From induō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

indūsium n (genitive indūsiī or indūsī); second declension

1. a woman's undergarment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	indūsium	indūsia
Genitive	indūsiī indūsī1	indūsiōrum
Dative	indūsiō	indūsiīs
Accusative	indūsium	indūsia
Ablative	indūsiō	indūsiīs
Vocative	indūsium	indūsia

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

Derived terms

• indūsiō

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.
• “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