introitus
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- singular
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭntrōʹĭtəs, IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtəs/
- plural
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭntrōʹĭto͞os, IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtuːs/
Noun
introitus (plural introituses)
- (medicine) The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.
- 1993: Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Melanesian journal: expedition to New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Manus, New Britain, and New Guinea, 23 January 1965 to 7 April 1965, page 90 (Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, National Institutes of Health)
- There is nothing feminine about these male pseudohermaphrodites except their introitus, and they seem to be normally male otherwise.
- (music) A piece of music played before a mass; a musical introduction of any sort.
- 1954, Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance, W.W. Norton, page 22:
- Five have an introitus (introduction) that stands outside the isorhythmic scheme;108 some of these introitus are instrumental rather than vocal […]
- 1992, Jon Michael Allsen, Style and intertextuality in the isorhythmic motet 1400-1440, volume 1, University of Wisconsin-Madison, page 118:
- As summarized in Example 3.14, nearly all of these introitus […]
Quotations
- 1955: Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard Middlewood Wilson, Simon Bredon, Derek John de Solla Price, and Peterhouse (University of Cambridge) Library, The Equatorie of the Planetis, page 161 (Cambridge University Press)
- It seems that many such technical words (grada, minuta, introitus) were left in the uninflected state when contracted in any customary form such as we have
Synonyms
- (entrance to the vagina): introitus vaginæ
Derived terms
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Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈintroi̯tus/,
- Rhymes: -introitus
- Syllabification(key): int‧roi‧tus
Noun
introitus
Declension
| Inflection of introitus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | introitus | introitukset | ||
| genitive | introituksen | introitusten introituksien | ||
| partitive | introitusta | introituksia | ||
| illative | introitukseen | introituksiin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | introitus | introitukset | ||
| accusative | nom. | introitus | introitukset | |
| gen. | introituksen | |||
| genitive | introituksen | introitusten introituksien | ||
| partitive | introitusta | introituksia | ||
| inessive | introituksessa | introituksissa | ||
| elative | introituksesta | introituksista | ||
| illative | introitukseen | introituksiin | ||
| adessive | introituksella | introituksilla | ||
| ablative | introitukselta | introituksilta | ||
| allative | introitukselle | introituksille | ||
| essive | introituksena | introituksina | ||
| translative | introitukseksi | introituksiksi | ||
| abessive | introituksetta | introituksitta | ||
| instructive | — | introituksin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Latin
Etymology
From introeō (“I go within, I enter”), from intrō (“into”) + eō (“I go”).
Pronunciation
- nominative and vocative singular (introitus)
- genitive singular and nominative, accusative, and vocative plural (introitūs)
Noun
introitus m (genitive introitūs); fourth declension
- A going in or into, entering; entrance.
- A place of entrance; passage; mouth of a river.
- (figuratively) An entering or entrance into an office or a society; entrance fee.
- (figuratively) A beginning, introduction, prelude.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) An introit.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | introitus | introitūs |
| Genitive | introitūs | introituum |
| Dative | introituī | introitibus |
| Accusative | introitum | introitūs |
| Ablative | introitū | introitibus |
| Vocative | introitus | introitūs |
Synonyms
- (beginning): initium, intrōductiō, prooemium, vestibulum
- (place of entrance): aditus, iānua, līmen, ostium, porta, vestibulum
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “introitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “introitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- introitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- introitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.