introductio

From intrōdūcō (“to lead in”, from intrō (“into”) +‎ dūcō (“to lead, to pull”)) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”, forming nouns from verbs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.troːˈdʊk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪.t̪roˈd̪uk.t̪͡s̪i.o]

intrōductiō f (genitive intrōductiōnis); third declension

1. innovation
2. (literature) A lead-in; an introduction, a preface
   • 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis

     An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas

Third-declension noun.

• “introductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “introductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• introductio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.