intro

English

Etymology

Abbreviated from introduction, from Latin, ultimately a compound from intrō (“I enter”) – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games.

Noun

intro (plural intros)

1. Short form of introduction.
2. (demoscene) A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.
   • 1999, "brainpower / digital artists", Win32 demos (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     If the rules specify that the DLLs' size will be added to the 64K limit, there's not a lot of space to code an intro.

   • 2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1

     Games, demos, intros. They were the same, this was the scene. The trend was that you cracked and made demos and intros.

Antonyms

• outro

Hyponyms

• (small audiovisual demo): 4ktro, cracktro, invitro

Translations

short form of introduction

• Dutch: intro (nl)
• French: intro (fr)
• German: intro (de)
• Italian: intro (it)

• Latin: intro (la)
• Portuguese: intro (pt)
• Spanish: intro (es)

Anagrams

• nitro, trion

Verb

intro (third-person singular simple present intros, present participle introing, simple past and past participle introed)

1. (informal, transitive) To introduce.

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Latin

Etymology 1

From intra (“within”)

Verb

present active intrō, present infinitive intrāre, perfect active intrāvī, supine intrātum.

1. I enter, go into, penetrate.

Inflection

First Conjugation

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	intrō	intrās	intrat	intrāmus	intrātis	intrant
	future	intrābō	intrābis	intrābit	intrābimus	intrābitis	intrābunt
	imperfect	intrābam	intrābās	intrābat	intrābāmus	intrābātis	intrābant
	perfect	intrāvī	intrāvistī	intrāvit	intrāvimus	intrāvistis	intrāvērunt
	future perfect	intrāverō	intrāveris	intrāverit	intrāverimus	intrāveritis	intrāverint
	pluperfect	intrāveram	intrāverās	intrāverat	intrāverāmus	intrāverātis	intrāverant
passive	present	intror	intrāris	intrātur	intrāmur	intrāminī	intrantur
	future	intrābor	intrāberis	intrābitur	intrābimur	intrābiminī	intrābuntur
	imperfect	intrābar	intrābāris	intrābātur	intrābāmur	intrābāminī	intrābantur
	perfect	Use intrātus m, intrāta f, intrātum n followed by the present indicative of sum.
	future perfect	Use intrātus m, intrāta f, intrātum n followed by the future indicative of sum.
	pluperfect	Use intrātus m, intrāta f, intrātum n followed by the imperfect indicative of sum.
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	intrem	intrēs	intret	intrēmus	intrētis	intrent
	imperfect	intrārem	intrārēs	intrāret	intrārēmus	intrārētis	intrārent
	perfect	intrāverim	intrāverīs	intrāverit	intrāverīmus	intrāverītis	intrāverint
	pluperfect	intrāvissem	intrāvissēs	intrāvisset	intrāvissēmus	intrāvissētis	intrāvissent
passive	present	intrer	intrēris	intrētur	intrēmur	intrēminī	intrentur
	imperfect	intrārer	intrārēris	intrārētur	intrārēmur	intrārēminī	intrārentur
	perfect	Use intrātus m, intrāta f, intrātum n followed by the present subjunctive of sum.
	pluperfect	Use intrātus m, intrāta f, intrātum n followed by the imperfect subjunctive of sum.
imperatives		active			passive
		present (you)	future (you)	future (he/she)	present (you)	future (you)	future (he/she)
	singular	intrā	intrātō	intrātō	intrāre	intrātor	intrātor
	plural	intrāte	intrātōte	intrantō	intrāminī	—	intrantor
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		intrāre	intrāvisse	intrātūrus esse	intrārī	intrātus esse	intrātum īrī
participles		intrāns (intrantis)	—	intrātūrus-ra, -rum	—	intrātus-a, -um	intrandus-nda, -ndum

Descendants

Aromanian: ãntru, ãntrare Catalan: entrar Dalmatian: entrur English: enter French: entrer Friulian: jentrâ Italian: entrare

Occitan: intrar Portuguese: entrar Romanian: intra Romansch: entrar, antrar, entrer Sardinian: intràe, intrai, intrare Spanish: entrar

Etymology 2

Preposition

intro

1. within

Derived terms

• introrsus

Descendants

• Aromanian: tru
• English: intro-
• Italian: entro
• Romanian: întru
• Spanish: entro