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intro

US/ˈɪntɹoʊ/ fairly common informal

noun

1.

formally making a person known to another or to the public

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Origin

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.

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