maegul ,
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Seems to miss some big ones and providing understanding of them.

“Et cetera”

  • “and other things”
  • abbreviated to “etc”
  • not pronounced “excetera” … but honestly I wouldn’t worry about it because this is the sort of alteration the Romans would have made and did make, and language is always evolving.
  • IMO, basically a distinct English word now

“Exempli gratia”

  • “for the sake of an example” / “for example”
  • abbreviated “eg”
  • basically a distinct English word now in the abbreviated form, pronounced “ee gee”.
  • easily substituted with a plain English translation “for example”

“Id est”

  • “that is”
  • abbreviated “ie”
  • like the above, basically a distinct English word now, IMO.
  • easily substituted with its plain English equivalent: “that is”
    • especially given how close the Latin is to the English …. Notice how similar the two phrases sound … that’s not a coincidence, these languages are related after all.
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