Introducing

How to spell introducing

11 letters · 4 syllables

How to pronounce introducing

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does introducing mean?

1. verbPresent participle of introduce: making someone or something known to others for the first time, or bringing something into use.

Introducing in a sentence

• The manager kept introducing each new hire to the rest of the team.

• The company is introducing a faster checkout system next month.

Where does introducing come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This word is the present participle of 'introduce', which English borrowed in the early 1500s from the Latin verb introducere, meaning 'to lead in' or 'to bring inside'. That verb was built from intro, meaning 'to the inside' or 'inward', joined to ducere, meaning 'to lead', a root that also gives us 'conduct', 'reduce', 'produce', and 'duke'. The earliest English uses meant literally to bring something into a place or to put one thing inside another, and the now familiar sense of presenting one person to another developed alongside it during the same century. The spelling keeps the Latin 'duc' core intact, which is a useful reminder that the tricky middle is 'duc' followed by '-ing', not the 'duce' you see in the base word 'introduce'. Dropping that silent final 'e' before '-ing' is the regular English rule, and it is the same pattern that turns 'produce' into 'producing'.

How the word is built

• intro- (to the inside, inward)
• duc (from Latin ducere: to lead)
• -ing (present participle suffix)