entryn.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman entré, entreie, entrie, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French entrée opening that allows access to a place, action of entering a place, beginning, commencement, (figurative) point where something begins (all 12th cent.), admission into a community or institution, act of taking on an office (late 13th cent. or earlier), opening of a document (early 14th cent. or earlier), permission to enter, access (late 14th cent.), action of beginning an activity (14th cent.), ceremonial entrance (15th cent.), preface (15th cent.), actor's entrance on to the stage (1565 in the passage translated in quot. ?1566 at sense 5), in Anglo-Norman also action or act of taking up occupation of a piece of land or property (late 13th cent. or earlier), fee or money required to gain admission (14th cent. or earlier), use as noun of feminine past participle of Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French entrer enter v. Compare entering n. Compare also ingoing n. and earlier ingang n.Compare post-classical Latin intrata (also entrata ) action of coming or going in (11th cent.), import duty, revenue, relief (13th cent.), and also Old Occitan intrada , entrada , Catalan entrada (13th cent.), Spanish entrada (1100), Portuguese entrada (early 12th cent. as intrada ), Italian entrata (early 13th cent.). Specific senses. The later sense development is influenced by enter v. In sense 9 translating classical Latin adytum shrine, sanctuary (see adytum n.), apparently by confusion with aditus approach, entrance (see adit n.). Sense 10 is attested slightly earlier in le Longe entre , the name of an Inn of Chancery in Holborn, so called from its long narrow entrance:1400 in E. Williams Early Holborn (1927) II. 1268 [A certain inn called] le longe entre. However, it is unclear whether this shows the Middle English word or an otherwise unattested Anglo-Norman use in this sense. Compare also sense 11. With sense 11 compare classical Latin introitus (see introit n.) in its specific sense ‘lodging’ (from 13th cent. in British sources). In sense 17a after French entrée individual dance within a larger segment of a ballet or other performance (1619 in this sense; more fully entrée de ballet (1582 in Middle French as entrée du balet )). With sense 17b compare French entrée (1755 or earlier in this sense). In sense 18 after French entrée (1722 in the passage translated in quot. 1737). Specific forms. Some forms with initial i probably show remodelling after classical Latin intrāre (see enter v.) or other words in in- prefix³ or in- prefix¹, but some early modern forms of this type, which occur in sources with a markedly nonstandard spelling, may simply show raising of the initial vowel.