exempli loco
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Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ekˈsem.pliː ˈlo.koː/, [ɛkˈs̠ɛmplʲiː ˈɫ̪ɔkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈsem.pli ˈlo.ko/, [eɡˈzɛmpli ˈlɔːko]
Adverb
[edit]exemplī locō (not comparable)
- for instance, by way of example
- 84 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero (author), Eduardus Stroebel (editor), De Inventione in Rhetorici libri duo qui vocantur De inventione (1915), book ii, § 118:
- ut in hac lege — nihil enim prohibet fictam exempli loco ponere, quo facilius res intellegatur
- 84 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero (author), Eduardus Stroebel (editor), De Inventione in Rhetorici libri duo qui vocantur De inventione (1915), book ii, § 118:
Synonyms
[edit]- (for example): exemplī causā, exemplī grātiā
References
[edit]- “exemplum, 2” on page 639/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)