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LanguageLatin
Meaning- exemplī grātiā ("for the sake of an example, for example")
- for example
- This abbreviation is used to introduce an example or illustration of something previously mentioned. It stands for the Latin phrase exemplī grātiā.
Interdum etiam utrumque vocabulum in usu loquendi inter se commutatur, e. g. Dig. XIII, C. 4.
Sometimes both terms are used interchangeably in speech, for example, Digest 13, Chapter 4.
Part of speechadv
Usage noteAlways read aloud as 'exempli gratia'.
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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 4 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.