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indusium

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin indusium.

Noun edit

indusium (plural indusia)

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

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case 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).

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Descendants edit

  • → Portuguese: indúsio

References edit

  • “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
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