Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Latin vs English

In many book we can found this two abbreviations:

  • i.e.
  • e.g.
But, what do they mean?

The i.e. is the acronym for id est that means namely (in Italian "cioè").

The e.g. is the acronym for exempli gratia that means for example.

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