introitus

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin introitus.

Pronunciation

singular

• enPR: ĭntrōʹĭtəs, IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtəs/

plural

• enPR: ĭntrōʹĭto͞os, IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtuːs/

Noun

introitus (plural introituses)

1. (medicine) The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.
   • 1980: Thomas Alexander Stamey, Pathogenesis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections, page 144 (Williams & Wilkins; →ISBN, 9780683079098)

     During NA therapy, 49 of the 54 women cleared their introitus of all Enterobacteriaceae.

   • 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.

2. (music) A piece of music played before a mass; a musical introduction of any sort.
   • 1954: Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance, page 22 (W.W. Norton)

     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, page 118 (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

     As summarized in Example 3.14, nearly all of these introitus […]

3. Alternative spelling of introit

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

See also

• introitus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• routinist

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Latin

Etymology

From introeō (“I go within, I enter”), from intrō (“into”) + eō (“I go”).

Pronunciation

nominative and vocative singular (introitus)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈtro.i.tus/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪roɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈtro.i.tus/, [in̪ˈt̪rɔːit̪us]

genitive singular and nominative, accusative, and vocative plural (introitūs)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈtro.i.tuːs/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪roɪt̪uːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈtro.i.tus/, [in̪ˈt̪rɔːit̪us]

Noun

introitus m (genitive introitūs); fourth declension

1. A going in or into, entering; entrance.
2. A place of entrance; passage; mouth of a river.
3. (figuratively) An entering or entrance into an office or a society; entrance fee.
4. (figuratively) A beginning, introduction, prelude.

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

• introeō
• introitōrius

Descendants

• Asturian: antroxu
• English: introit, introitus
• French: introït
• Galician entroido

• Italian: introito
• Old Spanish: entroido
• Portuguese: entrudo
• Spanish: introito, antruejo
• Swedish: introitus

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.