id est

American  

[id est] / ɪd ˈɛst /

Latin.

1. i.e.

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id est British  

/ ˈɪd ˈɛst /

1. the full form of i.e.

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Example Sentences

Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."

From Time Magazine Archive

The more specific term i.e., short for the Latin id est, means “that is.”

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Pythagoras injussu imperatoris, id est Dei, de præsidio et statione vitæ decedere.”—Cic.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Jerome had heard of it in the form ἐπιψαύσει, id est continget te Christus, but refused to vouch for it, as do Chrysostom and Theodoret, though they treat it with somewhat more consideration.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Non est inventa difficiles neque procul quærenda; ubique gentium reperitur: id est, aquæ parexillium quo baptizeris.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois