Heard spelling

androesium

Spelled androecium. a soft c

c or s in androecium?

A c. The sound is s, and that is a property of the vowel after it rather than of the letter itself.

English inherited the soft c wholesale from Latin, where c in front of i, e or y stopped being a k sometime in late antiquity. Androesium writes the modern sound. Androecium writes the k of oikos that used to be there. Same syllable, a thousand years apart.

Say

an-DREE-see-um

Letters

A-N-D-R-O-E-C-I-U-M