Viz. (also rendered viz without a period) and the adverb videlicet are used as synonyms for "namely", "that is to say", and "Viz. is the medieval scribal abbreviation for videlicet; it specifically uses a Tironian abbreviation. It comprises the letters v and i followed by ⁊,[1][note 1] the common Medieval Latin contraction for et and -et. It has been included in Unicode since version 5.1. The current useof ⁊ to also mean "and" (regardless of what word means "and" in the text's language) is the only other case of remaining usage of any Tironian abbreviation.
Videlicet is a contraction of Classical Latin vidēre licet, which meant "it may be seen; evidently; clearly" (vidēre, to see; licet, third person singular present tense of licēre, "to be permitted"). In Latin, videlicet was used to confirm a previous sentence or to state its contrary.as follows".
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