Latin phrases

On the comments the other day Lori issued a challenge to find out the meaning of certain Latin abbreviations. Here's what I've discovered:

The Latin abbreviation i.e., which stands for id est, means that is, that is to say, or in other words. The letters e.g. stand for the Latin phrase exempli gratia, which means for example.

I found the above information at this site.

"Etc." is et cetera which means and the rest, and so forth at this site.

There are lots more listed almost ad inf., ad infin. (ad infinitum) {to infinity).

Thanks for getting us started, Lori!

Till next time,


Suzi