Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<eg>

<eg> (example (exempli gratia)) (in a dictionary) contains an example text containing at least one occurrence of the word form, used in the sense being described; examples may be quoted from (named) authors or contrived.
Attributes Global attributes and those inherited from dictionaries, dictionaryParts, dictionaryTopLevel
Example 






Note



In some dictionaries the quoted example may be followed by a
bibliographic citation for the source; this citation may be tagged with
the tags described in section 6.10 Bibliographic Citations and References.
The quotation and the indication of its source should be enclosed in
a <cit> element.






Module
Declared in file teidict2; Base tag set for dictionaries: enabled by
TEI.dictionary





Class
dictionaryTopLevel; dictionaryParts; dictionaries





Data Description
May contain a quotation, pronunciation, definition, or
translation information.




May contain
case cit colloc def eg etym form gen gramGrp hom hyph itype lbl mood number oRef oVar orth pRef pVar per pos pron q quote re sense stress subc superEntry syll tns tr trans usg xr 




May occur within
dictScrap eg entry entryFree etym hom re sense trans 




Declaration

<!ELEMENT eg %om.RO;  ( q | quote | cit | %m.dictionaryParts;
                       | %m.formPointers; )+ > 
<!ATTLIST eg  
      %a.global;
      %a.dictionaries;>







See further
12.3.5.1 Examples








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