LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

e.g.

e.g.

Meaning

  1. exemplī grātiā ("for the sake of an example, for example")
    nam licèt e. g. fornicatio prohibita sit […] non tamen id semper fieri necesse est. e.g. aliquis corruptus pecuniâ […] & tamen obligationem e. g. restituendi damnum1732 (MDCCXXXII), Antonius Mayr, Theologia Scholastica, Ingolstadium, page 55, by justification
    Interdum etiam utrumque vocabulum in usu loquendi inter se commutatur, e. g. Dig. XIII, C. 4. Liv. XXIII, 48. Recentiora denique iura, quibus foenus prohibitum est, e.g. ius Francogallorum, […]1821, Julius Müller, Ratio et historia odii quo foenus habitum est, pages 3 and 10, by justification

Quick answers

What does e.g. mean in Latin?
e.g., a adverb, means “exemplī grātiā ("for the sake of an example, for example")”.