videlicet
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vidēlicet, Which itself is a contraction from Latin of videre licet meaning "it is permitted to see"
Pronunciation
Often read out in translation as namely or to wit.
- IPA(key): /vɪˈdɛlɪsɛt/
- IPA(key): /ˈneɪmlɪ/
- IPA(key): /təˈwɪt/, /ˈtuːwɪt/
Adverb
videlicet (not comparable)
- Namely, to wit, that is to say (used when clarifying or naming the preceding item or topic)
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
- 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.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
Usage notes
Where videlicet is carefully distinguished from scilicet, viz. is used to provide glosses and sc. to provide omitted words or parenthetic clarification.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /wiˈdeː.li.ket/, [wɪˈdeː.lɪ.kɛt]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈde.li.t͡ʃet/, [viˈdeː.li.t͡ʃet]
Adverb
vidēlicet (not comparable)
- Videlicet: 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.
- c. '1300', Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris
- clearly, evidently
References
- 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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