videlicet
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin vidēlicet, which itself is a contraction of vidēre licet, meaning "it is permitted to see".
Pronunciation
[edit]Often read out in translation as namely or to wit.
Adverb
[edit]videlicet (not comparable)
- Namely, to wit, that is to say (used when clarifying or naming the preceding item or topic)
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- Videlicet,a Brothell, or ſo forth.
Usage notes
[edit]Where videlicet is carefully distinguished from scilicet, viz. is used to provide glosses and sc. to provide omitted words or parenthetic clarification.
Synonyms
[edit]- See namely
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A contraction of vidēre licet (“[it] is permitted to see”).[1] Cf. scīlicet.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯iˈdeː.li.ket/, [u̯ɪˈd̪eːlʲɪkɛt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈde.li.t͡ʃet/, [viˈd̪ɛːlit͡ʃet̪]
Adverb
[edit]vidēlicet (not comparable)
- namely, to wit, that is to say
- c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris:
- Per Ordinacionem tocius regni Anglie fuit mensura Domini Regis composita videlicet quod denarius qui vocatur sterlingus rotundus & sine tonsura ponderabit triginta duo grana frumenti in medio Spice.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- clearly, evidently
References
[edit]- “videlicet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “videlicet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- videlicet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ American Heritage Dictionary, 5th ed. "vi·del·i·cet". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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