intro

Clipping of introduction, from Latin intrōductiō (“lead-in, introduction”) – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound; the first part ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɹoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧tro

intro (plural intros)

1. (informal) An introduction.
2. (informal) The opening sequence at beginning of a film, television program, etc.
3. (demoscene) A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.
   • 1999, brainpower / digital artists, “Win32 demos”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

     If the rules specify that the DLLs' size will be added to the 64K limit, there's not a lot of space to code an intro.

   • 2001, LJames4728, “Good C64 Game Sites?”, in alt.c64 (Usenet):

     Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.

   • 2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:

     Games, demos, intros. They were the same, this was the scene. The trend was that you cracked and made demos and intros.

• outro, extro

• (small audiovisual demo): 4ktro, cracktro, invitro, wedtro

intro (third-person singular simple present intros, present participle introing, simple past and past participle introed)

1. (informal, transitive) To introduce.

• trion, Nitro, tonir, Niort, nitro, nitro-, torni, Tiron

From English intro.

intro

1. (colloquial) intro (opening sequence) (Classifier: 段 c; 個／个 c)

• ending

Internationalism (see English intro), ultimately from Latin intrōductiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈintro/, [ˈin̪.t̪ro̞]
• Rhymes: -intro
• Syllabification^(key): int‧ro
• Hyphenation^(key): int‧ro

intro (informal)

1. intro (introduction)

   Synonyms: aloitus, esittely, johdanto

• “intro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• nitro, nitro-, rotin, torin, torni, trion

Clipping of introduction.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tʁo/

intro f (plural intros)

1. (informal) intro

Borrowed from Dutch intro, from Latin intrōductiō (“lead-in, introduction”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈintro/ [ˈin̪.t̪ro]
• Rhymes: -intro
• Syllabification: in‧tro

intro (plural intro-intro)

1. (informal) intro:
   1. clipping of introduksi (“introduction”)

      Synonyms: introduksi, pengantar

   2. the opening sequence at beginning of a film, television program, etc.

• “intro” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.troː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin̪.t̪ro]

From intrā (“within”) + -ō (verbalizer).

intrō (present infinitive intrāre, perfect active intrāvī, supine intrātum); first conjugation

1. (intransitive) to enter, go into, penetrate

   Synonyms: introeo, invado, ineo, subeō, invado, accēdō, succēdō, ingredior, immigrō

   Antonyms: exeō, ēvādō, ēgredior, abeō, ēiciō

2. (transitive) to assault, attack

   Synonyms: invādō, oppugnō, incurrō, impetō, incessō, aggredior, īnstō, excurrō, concurrō, occurrō, petō, accēdō, inruō, incēdō, incidō, irrumpō, adorior, adeō, opprimō, accurrō, appetō, arripiō, assiliō, invehō, lacessō

   Antonyms: repugnō, resistō, adversor, obversor, obstō, sistō

3. (transitive) to cross, go beyond, exceed

   Synonyms: trānsgredior, praetereō, trānseō, superō, praeferō, peragō

4. (transitive) to stab

   Synonyms: trānsfīgō, peragō, cōnfodiō, fīgō, percutiō, trāiciō, fodiō, trānsigō

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
²At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

From earlier *interus (whence also interior), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). Doublet of intrā.

The change from instrumental/ablative and accusative to accusative only is caused by *-teros used adverbially.

intrō (+ accusative)

1. within

   Synonyms: intrā, penitus

   Antonyms: forās, forīs, extrīnsecus

• dē intrō
• intrōrsum

• “intro (adv.)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intro (vb.)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• intro in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “intro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "intro", 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)
• intro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enter a city: ingredi, intrare urbem, introire in urbem
    
  • (ambiguous) within four walls: intra parietes (Brut. 8. 32)
    
• intro in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306

Unadapted borrowing from English intro.

• Hyphenation: in‧tro

intro f (plural intros)

1. (music) intro

   Synonym: introdução

From Latin intrō.

• IPA^(key): /intro/

intro

1. in, inside of, within

• IPA^(key): /ˈintɾo/ [ˈĩn̪.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -intɾo
• Syllabification: in‧tro

intro f (plural intros)

1. intro (an introduction)
2. intro, opening sequence (the opening sequence at beginning of a film, television program, etc)

   Synonym: cabecera

3. Enter, enter (the "Enter" key on a computer keyboard)

• “intro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024