Other forms: intros
An intro is the brief opening bit of a song, video or talk. A short intro, skip the intro, the guitar intro.
It is informal and clipped, and it belongs to music and video rather than to writing, where you would say introduction. Streaming services now offer a skip intro button, which tells you what most people think of the ones on television.
1nounintroThe brief opening bit of a song, video or talk.
“I love the guitar intro to this song, just before the singing starts.”
intro is an opening.
A clipping of introduction, from Latin introducere, to lead in — intro, inward, plus ducere, to lead.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁énteros — inner, what is inside
Latin
intrōductiō — lead-in, introduction
English, today
intro
a 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA