Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
z.E.
English translation:
for example, for instance, e.g.
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Susan Welsh
Dec 27, 2009 17:08
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z.E.
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18th century text
There may be an obvious answer to this, but if there is, I'm missing it in all the usual sources. This is from a 1776 lecture "On Genius" by Jakob Friedrich Abel, who was Schiller's teacher:
Herrscht nicht z. E. jene allmächtige Leidenschaft, die Weise und Toren, die Feige und Helden, die insbesondere die Lieblinge der Grazien, die Dichter schafft, am Mississippi wie an der Tiber?
p.s. - Does anybody know a way to force Google to include punctuation in a search (in this case, the periods)?
Thanks in advance, and happy new year!
Herrscht nicht z. E. jene allmächtige Leidenschaft, die Weise und Toren, die Feige und Helden, die insbesondere die Lieblinge der Grazien, die Dichter schafft, am Mississippi wie an der Tiber?
p.s. - Does anybody know a way to force Google to include punctuation in a search (in this case, the periods)?
Thanks in advance, and happy new year!
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| 4 +15 | for example, for instance, e.g. |
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German term (edited):
z.E. (zum Exempel, zum Exemplum)
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for example, for instance, e.g.
z.E. (zum Exempel, zum Exemplum) = etwas altmodische Form von "zum Beispiel" = for example, for instance, e.g.
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e.g.
Google: "e.g. abbreviation" and it works with the punctuation :-)
Note from asker:
| Thanks for the Google tip! I still get ZE without periods, but it is limited to abbreviations. I tried z.E. Abkürzung and it actually did better, including yielding a useful Wikipedia page that I didn't know existed. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Abk%C3%BCrzung |
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