introitus
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- singular
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭntrōʹĭtəs, IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtəs/
- plural
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭntrōʹĭto͞os, IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtuːs/
Noun edit
introitus (plural introituses)
- (medicine) The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.
- 1988 January 29, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Now, far be it from me to add insult to injury, but how could you be so klutzy that you "missed the introitus"?
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- (entrance to the vagina): introitus vaginæ
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈintroi̯tus/, [ˈin̪t̪ro̞i̯t̪us̠]
- Rhymes: -introitus
- Syllabification(key): int‧roi‧tus
Noun edit
introitus
Declension edit
Inflection of introitus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
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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 edit
Etymology edit
From introeō (“I go within, I enter”), from intrō (“into”) + eō (“I go”).
Pronunciation edit
- nominative and vocative singular (introitus)
- (Classical) 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) IPA(key): /inˈtro.i.tuːs/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪roɪt̪uːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈtro.i.tus/, [in̪ˈt̪rɔːit̪us]
Noun edit
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 edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | introitus | introitūs |
Genitive | introitūs | introituum |
Dative | introituī | introitibus |
Accusative | introitum | introitūs |
Ablative | introitū | introitibus |
Vocative | introitus | introitūs |
Synonyms edit
- (beginning): initium, intrōductiō, prooemium, vestibulum
- (place of entrance): aditus, iānua, līmen, ostium, porta, vestibulum
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “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.