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outro

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Etymology

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Blend of out +‎ intro, an analogy using out as the opposite of in. First attested in the title of the 1967 Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song "The Intro and the Outro" written by Vivian Stanshall.

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Noun

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outro (plural outros)

  1. (music, informal) A portion of music at the end of a song; like an intro, but at the end instead of the beginning.
    • 1977, Claude Hall, Barbara Hall, This business of radio programming:
      […] talking over the intro of a record and off the outro, weaving back and forth between two records spinning […]
    • 1992, Bruce Bartlett, Jenny Bartlett, Practical recording techniques:
      Find the spot in the script where you want the outro to start fading up.
    • 2009, 24 September, Jude Rogers in The Guardian, The trouble with remastered records
      But then something happens on I Want You (She's So Heavy), two minutes into the song's intense outro, when a cloud of white noise comes in, […]
  2. (informal) The closing sequence at the end of a film, television program, video game etc.
    • 2007, Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser, Learning ActionScript 3.0: a beginner's guide:
      Having gone through the intro and stopped, the next click plays the outro of the current section and then hits the following script at the end of the outro animation:

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Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese outro, from Latin alterum. Compare Spanish otro, French autre.

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Determiner

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outro m (feminine outra, masculine plural outros, feminine plural outras)

  1. other, another

Usage notes

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All forms of outro contract when used following the contractions de (“of, from”) or en (“in”). So de outro contracts to doutro, and en outras contracts to noutras.

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin alterum (“the other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élteros (“the other of two”).

Cognate with Old French altre and Old Spanish otro.

Determiner

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outro

  1. other
    • c. 13th century, Pero Garcia Burgalês, “María Negra vi eu, en outro día”, in Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional‎[1], Italy, published 1526, page 1382, lines 1–7:
      María Negra vi eu, en outro día, / ir rabialçada per ũa carreira; / e preguntei-a, como ía senlheira, / e por aqueste nome que havía. / E disse-m'ela'ntón: «Hei nom'assí / por aqueste sinal con que nací, / que trago negro come ũa caldeira».
      I saw Black Mary the other day, walking sassyly down the road; and I asked her why she walked alone and why she had that name. And then she told me: "I have this name because of this mark that I was born with, which is black like a cauldron".

Descendants

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  • Galician: outro
  • Portuguese: outro

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese outro, from Latin alterum (“the other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élteros (“the other of two”). Compare Spanish otro and French autre.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈo(w).tɾu/ [ˈo(ʊ̯).tɾu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈo(w).tɾo/ [ˈo(ʊ̯).tɾo]
 

Determiner

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outro (feminine outra, masculine plural outros, feminine plural outras)

  1. other (not the one previously referred to)
    O outro livro é melhor.
    The other book is better.
  2. another (one more)
    Me dá outra cerveja, por favor.
    Please give me another beer.
  3. another (not the same)
    Não gostei deste livro, quero outro livro.
    I didn’t like this book, I want another book.

Pronoun

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outro (feminine outra, masculine plural outros, feminine plural outras)

  1. other one (not the one previously referred to)
    O outro é melhor.
    The other one is better.
  2. another (one more)
    Gostei tanto deste livro que quero ler outro.
    I liked this book so much that I want to read another one.
  3. another (not the same)
    Não gostei deste livro, quero outro.
    I didn’t like this book, I want another one.
  4. another instance of someone or something that does something
    Ele gosta de ler, e eu sou outro.
    He likes reading, and I’m another one who does.

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:outro.

Derived terms

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