introitus

See also: Introitus and introïtus

English

Etymology

From Latin introitus.

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.
- 1980, Thomas Alexander Stamey, Pathogenesis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections, Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 144, →ISBN:
  During NA therapy, 49 of the 54 women cleared their introitus of all Enterobacteriaceae.
- 1988, January 29, “Cecil Adams”, in The Straight Dope‎:
  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, 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 […]

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

Anagrams

routinist

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

nominative and vocative singular (introitus)

(Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈtro.i.tus/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪roɪt̪ʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈtro.i.tus/, [in̪ˈt̪rɔːit̪us]

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

(Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈtro.i.tuːs/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪roɪt̪uːs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈtro.i.tus/, [in̪ˈt̪rɔːit̪us]

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

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