Google dictionary has this information about the origin of ex Old english versions have the same Is short for exempli gratia, and is in common use to introduce an example within a sentence
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Submit a sample of academic writing, e.g., a dissertation chapter
However, some authors use ex.
In informal english, especially us english, it is acceptable to say I saw your ex with this hot dude yesterday Or, she is still in touch with all of her exes. In writing, though, the use of former doesn't seem so rare
What is the proper way to use the ex prefix to more than one word My ex baseball coach taught me Ex by itself (no hyphen) doesn't seem right either In legal language i have come across the term ex post facto
Isn't ex redundant in this phrase
Post facto also means after the fact, so it should be sufficient This is commonly used in I was thinking that this sort of anticipatory assimilation in which the voicing from the vowel following the ks makes the gz, also applies when the following sound is a voiced consonant, but it turns out there are too few examples of those to get a good feel for it The expression originated as 'deus ex machina' from a latin translation as shown below and its modern meaning refer to a literary/artistic device used to solve apparently irresolvable situations ( as if by divine intervention).
