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29 cards. The set of Latin abbreviations in general English use is small and closed — this deck covers the ones the major style manuals and dictionaries actually treat, plus two usage cards. Padding it would mean inventing entries.
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- e.g.
- Exempli gratia — 'for example'; introduces one or two samples, never the whole list.
- i.e.
- Id est — 'that is'; restates the same thing, so both sides must be interchangeable.
- 'The rocky planets (___ Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars)' — e.g. or i.e.?
- i.e. — those four ARE the rocky planets. e.g. would need just a sample: '(e.g., Mercury)'.
- etc.
- Et cetera — 'and the rest'; put a comma before it and never write 'and etc.'
- cf.
- Confer — 'compare'; sends the reader to a work to set against the one being discussed.
- viz.
- Videlicet — 'namely'; a stronger, more exact i.e., used before a full and precise list.
- sc.
- Scilicet — 'namely'; supplies a word left out, or clears up an ambiguity.
- et al.
- Et alii — 'and others'; used of people in citations, not of things.
- N.B.
- Nota bene — 'note well'; conventionally capitalised, unlike e.g. and i.e.
- ibid.
- Ibidem — 'in the same place'; the same source AND page as the note just before.
- id.
- Idem — 'the same'; stands in for the author's name across works by them. Chicago discourages it.
- op. cit.
- Opere citato — 'in the work cited'; obsolete. Chicago uses a shortened title instead
- loc. cit.
- Loco citato — 'in the place cited'; same work and page. Obsolete, like op. cit.
- c. or ca.
- Circa — 'about'; placed before an approximate date: born c. 1600.
- q.v.
- Quod vide — 'which see'; look the topic up elsewhere in the same work.
- s.v.
- Sub verbo — 'under the word'; cites a dictionary or encyclopedia entry by its headword.
- sic
- Latin for 'thus' — the oddity or error is in the original, not in the quoting.
- per se
- 'By, of or in itself' — the thing taken on its own, apart from anything attached to it.
- ad hoc
- 'For this' — made or done for one particular purpose, not planned in advance.
- passim
- 'Here and there' — the point recurs throughout the work, not on one page.
- vs. or v.
- Versus — 'against'; v. is the usual form in case names, vs. elsewhere.
- Q.E.D.
- Quod erat demonstrandum — 'which was to be demonstrated'; closes a proof.
- et seq.
- Et sequens / et sequentes — 'and the following'; p. 12 et seq. means p. 12 onward.
- P.S.
- Postscriptum — 'written after'; a note added below the signature of a letter.
- a.m. and p.m.
- Ante meridiem and post meridiem — 'before noon' and 'after noon'.
- AD
- Anno Domini — 'in the year of the Lord'. AD is Latin; BC ('before Christ') is English.
- inter alia
- 'Among other things' — flags that a list is being cut short.
- How US and UK style punctuate e.g. and i.e.
- US (Chicago): periods kept, comma after — 'e.g.,'. UK style often drops both: 'eg'.
- Where these abbreviations belong in a paper
- In parentheses, notes and tables. In running prose, spell them out in English instead.
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