Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
viz
Spanish translation:
videlicet= a saber, es decir, esto es
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Oso (X)
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English term
viz
English to Spanish
Art/Literary
I have assumed the opposite, viz.: that many readers...
Alguien sabe que significa ese 'viz' y como se traduce? Gracias.
Alguien sabe que significa ese 'viz' y como se traduce? Gracias.
Proposed translations
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5 +2 | videlicet= a saber, es decir, esto es | Oso (X) |
5 +1 | es decir (= i.e.) // por ejemplo / verbigracia (=e.g.) | dawn39 (X) |
4 +1 | entiéndase | moken |
3 | abbreviation for videlicet | chaplin |
Proposed translations
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videlicet= a saber, es decir, esto es
Buena suerte y saludos del Oso ¶:^)
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\'viz\' es la abreviación de \'videlicet\', adverbio que significa: a saber, es decir, esto es
Diccionario Bilingüe Simon & Schsuter\'s©
vi·de·li·cet
Function: adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, from vidEre to see + licet it is permitted, from licEre to be permitted
Date: 15th century
: that is to say : NAMELY
Merriam-Webster\'s ©
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Note added at 2003-06-23 23:27:27 (GMT) Post-grading
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Gracias a ti, Jesus.
¡Saludos cordiales!
Oso ¶:^)
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Note added at 2003-06-23 23:10:59 (GMT)
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\'viz\' es la abreviación de \'videlicet\', adverbio que significa: a saber, es decir, esto es
Diccionario Bilingüe Simon & Schsuter\'s©
vi·de·li·cet
Function: adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, from vidEre to see + licet it is permitted, from licEre to be permitted
Date: 15th century
: that is to say : NAMELY
Merriam-Webster\'s ©
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Note added at 2003-06-23 23:27:27 (GMT) Post-grading
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Gracias a ti, Jesus.
¡Saludos cordiales!
Oso ¶:^)
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Gracias Oso y a todos."
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abbreviation for videlicet
according to my Latin dictionary it means :
it is clear that, obviously, of course
maybe in Spanish you say claro
It does not appear in the French dictionary
buena suerte!
Ségolène
it is clear that, obviously, of course
maybe in Spanish you say claro
It does not appear in the French dictionary
buena suerte!
Ségolène
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7 mins
entiéndase
como bien dice oso, a saber
encuentro que a menudo "entiéndase" funciona bastante bien
saludos y sonrisas
álvaro
encuentro que a menudo "entiéndase" funciona bastante bien
saludos y sonrisas
álvaro
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dawn39 (X)
: funciona. :-D
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es decir (= i.e.) // por ejemplo / verbigracia (=e.g.)
viz.
That is to say, namely. Commonly used **to introduce examples**.
**This expression lies ambiguously between i.e. and e.g.**, in the following way: The list of examples that follows it may not be an exhaustive list, in which case it means something like e.g. Alternatively, the list following it may be exhaustive or complete, from some point of view, in which case viz. means something like i.e. This expression is a good way of covering your ass when you don't understand a thing well enough to define it, but you think that you can give a list that probably covers all cases.
Viz. is an abbreviation of the Latin adverb **videlicet**, which originally meant something like ``clearly,'' and came from the expression **videre licet**, meaning *"to be able to see"*
You may ask:
**`where does the z come from?**' What z? Oh! That z. The one in the abbreviation. Well, this may be hard to believe, but back in the Middle Ages, before the time when life started to get hectic, books were reproduced by hand. Even monks, who have centuries to work, would get writer's cramp, so they would come to another long and frequently-appearing word like videlicet, peer down towards the end of it and think: `everyone knows what the word is.' Like good sports they'd start out to write it, but by the time they'd written v i they would begin to LOSE HEART, so they'd just sort of write a squiggle that looks like a resistor in a circuit diagram, except that those things didn't exist yet. Instead, they saw that it resembled a z (especially a script z), so they got into the habit of writing "v i z"."
Un cordial saludo.
That is to say, namely. Commonly used **to introduce examples**.
**This expression lies ambiguously between i.e. and e.g.**, in the following way: The list of examples that follows it may not be an exhaustive list, in which case it means something like e.g. Alternatively, the list following it may be exhaustive or complete, from some point of view, in which case viz. means something like i.e. This expression is a good way of covering your ass when you don't understand a thing well enough to define it, but you think that you can give a list that probably covers all cases.
Viz. is an abbreviation of the Latin adverb **videlicet**, which originally meant something like ``clearly,'' and came from the expression **videre licet**, meaning *"to be able to see"*
You may ask:
**`where does the z come from?**' What z? Oh! That z. The one in the abbreviation. Well, this may be hard to believe, but back in the Middle Ages, before the time when life started to get hectic, books were reproduced by hand. Even monks, who have centuries to work, would get writer's cramp, so they would come to another long and frequently-appearing word like videlicet, peer down towards the end of it and think: `everyone knows what the word is.' Like good sports they'd start out to write it, but by the time they'd written v i they would begin to LOSE HEART, so they'd just sort of write a squiggle that looks like a resistor in a circuit diagram, except that those things didn't exist yet. Instead, they saw that it resembled a z (especially a script z), so they got into the habit of writing "v i z"."
Un cordial saludo.
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