different between intr vs intro

English

Alternative forms

• intr.

Adjective

intr (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Abbreviation of intransitive.

Anagrams

• NRTI, RINT, nitr-

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nt?o?/

Noun

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 (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     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.

   • 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.

Antonyms

• outro

Hyponyms

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

Translations

Verb

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

1. (informal, transitive) To introduce.

Anagrams

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?intro/, [?in?t?ro?]
• Rhymes: -intro
• Syllabification: int?ro

Noun

intro

1. (informal) intro (introduction)

   Synonyms: aloitus, esittely, johdanto

Declension

Anagrams

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

French

Noun

intro f (plural intros)

1. intro, introduction

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.tro?/, [??n?t??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.tro/, [?in?t???]

Etymology 1

From intr? (“within”).

Verb

intr? (present infinitive intr?re, perfect active intr?v?, supine intr?tum); first conjugation

1. I enter, go into, penetrate.

Conjugation

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Descendants

• Aromanian: ãntru, intru
• intr?re (present active infinitive)
  • Romanian: intra, întra
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Corsican: entra
    • Dalmatian: entrur
    • Italian: intrare, entrare
  • Old French: entrer
    • Middle French: entrer
      • French: entrer
    • Norman: entrer
    • ? Middle English: entren
      • English: enter
      • Scots: enter
  • Old Occitan: entrar, intrar
    • Catalan: entrar
    • Occitan: intrar, entrar
    • ? Occitan: dintrar
  • Rhaeto-Romance
    • Friulian: jentrâ
    • Romansch: entrar, antrar, entrer
  • Sardinian: intràe, intrai, intrare
  • Venetian: entrar
  • West Iberian
    • Asturian: entrar
    • Old Portuguese: intrar, entrar
      • Galician: entrar
      • Portuguese: entrar
    • Old Spanish: [Term?]
      • Ladino: entrar
      • Spanish: entrar (see there for further descendants)
• ? Irish: iontráil

Etymology 2

Same as intr?.

Preposition

intr? (+ accusative)

1. within

Derived terms

• intr?rsum

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: tru
  • Romanian: întru
• Italian: entro
• Spanish: entro
• Sardinian: intro
• ? Old Portuguese: dentro
  • Portuguese: dentro
• ? English: enter

References

• 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 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, 1883–1887)
• intro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• intro in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Noun

intro f (plural intros)

1. (music) Abbreviation of introdução; intro

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin intr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intro/

Preposition

intro

1. in, inside of, within

Spanish

Noun

intro f (plural intros)

1. intro