exempli loco

exempli loco

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsem.pliː ˈlo.koː/, [ɛkˈs̠ɛmplʲiː ˈɫ̪ɔkoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsem.pli ˈlo.ko/, [eɡˈzɛmpli ˈlɔːko]

Adverb

exemplī locō (not comparable)

1. 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

Synonyms

• (for example): exemplī causā, exemplī grātiā

References

• “exemplum, 2” on page 639/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)