introitus

== 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. 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. ==== 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 ==== Derived terms ==== introitus vaginae vaginal introitus ==== See also ==== introitus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === routinist == Finnish == === Etymology === From Latin introitus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈintroi̯tus/, [ˈin̪.t̪ro̞i̯t̪us̠] Rhymes: -introitus Syllabification(key): int‧roi‧tus Hyphenation(key): int‧roi‧tus === Noun === introitus introit, introitus ==== Declension ==== == 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): [ɪnˈtro.ɪ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [inˈtrɔː.i.tus] genitive singular and nominative, accusative, and vocative plural (introitūs) (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪnˈtro.ɪ.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [inˈtrɔː.i.tus] === 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. ==== 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, 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.