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    Videlicet means 'namely' or 'that is to say'. You use it before naming exactly the thing you have just referred to in general terms: 'the accused failed to appear on the date set, videlicet 4 March 2019'. It is almost never written out in full. In practice you meet it as the abbreviation viz., and the strange thing is that when people read viz. aloud, most of them say 'namely', not 'videlicet' — the abbreviation is a written signal rather than a spoken word. This is a lawyer's and scholar's word, formal and dated, alive mainly in legal documents, old academic writing and footnotes. Everyday English simply says namely, that is, or in other words. It helps to hold it next to its two Latin neighbours, which students constantly : i.e. means 'that is' and restates the same thing in other words; e.g. means 'for example' and gives one or two of many; viz. names the full list or the exact item you meant — so it is closer to i.e. than to e.g., but with the flavour of specifying rather than explaining. The odd-looking abbreviation, by the way, is not a typo: the z is not really a z but an old scribal mark standing for the -et ending.

    即、也就是說(正式的拉丁語詞,幾乎只以縮寫 viz. 出現在法律或學術文件裡;唸出來時多半直接讀成 namely。日常英文說 namely 就好)

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組成From Latin vidēlicet, a squeezing-together of vidēre licet — literally 'it is permitted to see', so 'it may be seen (that)', hence 'clearly, namely'. The abbreviation viz. keeps the vi- and a medieval shorthand mark for the -et.

同家族的字

  • videosame Latin vidēre 'to see' — video literally means 'I see'
  • evidentalso from vidēre — something evident can be seen plainly
  • licensefrom Latin licet 'it is permitted', the second half of vidēlicet

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

videlicetadv/vɪˈdɛlɪsɛt/

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    Namely, to wit, that is to say (used when clarifying or naming the preceding item or topic)

    • Videlicet,a Brothell, or ſo forth.
    • —[…]My father did speak much of the day he was not speedily to forget, videlicet May Day of 1517, when there was great apprentice rioting against insolent foreigners.

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