de intro

Latin

Etymology

From dē +‎ intrō.

Adverb

dē intrō (not comparable) (Late Latin)

1. from within
   • 4th c. C.E., Chiron Centaurus, Mulomedicina Chironis, 135:

     auferes […] sanguinem […] et de prioribus pedibus iuxta ungulam partes in apparenti venenata vena deintro, et foris lavare calida

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: dentro, (dialectal) drento
  • Neapolitan: dinto, rinto (alt. spelling)
  • Sicilian: dintra

    Calabria: dintru

• North Italian:
  • Emilian: dentar
  • Ligurian: drento, dento
  • Lombard: dentre, denter, dent, dint, daint
  • Piedmontese: drinta, dintra, dinta, den, din
  • Romagnol: drenta
  • Venetan: drento, (archaic) dentro
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: dintre
  • Occitan: dintre
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: dintro, drento, dentro
  • Asturian: dientro
  • Leonese: dientru
  • Mirandese: drento, andrento
  • Portuguese: dentro
  • Spanish: dentro

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 352: “restare dentro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “deĭntro”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 31
• Adams, J. N. (2013) Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 607