English

Noun

introitus ‎(plural introituses)

1. (medicine) The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the ****.
   • 1980: Thomas Alexander Stamey, Pathogenesis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections, page 144 (Williams & Wilkins; ISBN 0683079093, 9780683079098)

     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.

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 ****): introitus vaginæ

See also

• introitus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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/, [ɪnˈtrɔ.ɪ.tʊs]

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈtro.i.tuːs/, [ɪnˈtrɔ.ɪ.tuːs]

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.

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Synonyms

• (beginning): initium, intrōductiō, prooemium, vestibulum
• (place of entrance): aditus, iānua, līmen, ostium, porta, vestibulum

Related terms

• introeō
• introitōrius

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “introitus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.