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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread the word "viz" #195245 12/23/2010 5:52 PM Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 1 Connecticut, USA akerley stranger akerley stranger Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 1 Connecticut, USA I cannot find a definition for "viz." which I have seen on many occasions through the years, seeming to mean "for example" or "such as" or something of that kind. I'd like to get a definition if possible. Thank you all. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the word "viz" akerley #195246 12/23/2010 5:57 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water WELCOME, AKERLEY ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the word "viz" akerley #195247 12/23/2010 8:45 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass viz : namely (Used to introduce examples, lists, or items.) Function: abbreviation Etymology: Latin videlicet NB: there are 42 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word viz listed at OneLook.com (YCLIU!) Last edited by tsuwm; 12/23/2010 8:49 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the word "viz" tsuwm #195249 12/23/2010 10:29 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 You might even find out how the delicet part became [i[z[/i]. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the word "viz" Faldage #195258 12/24/2010 7:18 AM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Candy Pooh-Bah Candy Pooh-Bah Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Originally Posted By: Faldage You might even find out how the delicet part became [i[z[/i]. I see. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the non-word "viz" Faldage #195262 12/24/2010 1:25 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh ou might even find out how the delicet part became z. Why doesn't this set off the peevometry alarums like ATM machine? A 'proper' abbreviation for videlicet should obviously be vid., not viz. if only normative grammarians were consistent. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the non-word "viz" zmjezhd #195275 12/24/2010 6:05 PM Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 677 Middle Earth bexter addict bexter addict Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 677 Middle Earth I have seen vid. used occaisionally...what always confused me was the use of viz a viz... ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: visa viz, or hit the fat bexter #195279 12/24/2010 6:25 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh what always confused me was the use of viz a viz... I once baited a French co-worker by asking him what he thought of the way Americans pronounced coup de grace as coup de gras. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the non-word "viz" bexter #195281 12/24/2010 7:19 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Originally Posted By: bexter I have seen vid. used occaisionally...what always confused me was the use of viz a viz... Where you see dat? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the non-word "viz" bexter #195386 12/29/2010 5:41 PM Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Aramis addict Aramis addict Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Originally Posted By: bexter I have seen vid. used occaisionally...what always confused me was the use of viz a viz... Ha! Here is an excerpt from an obscure, unpublished work, with corrected spelling of Defoe, who was a writer but probably not an actor: Shocking as this may be, I will admit that I once made a faulty assumption from not looking something up. In reading Defoe, I had always taken his viz. to mean vis-à-vis. One day while looking something else up somewhere in the V’s, on a whim I looked for viz. To my surprise, Defoe’s term turned out to be an abbreviation for videlicet, which means ‘that is to say’ or ‘namely’, [and thus very much like id est]. My interpretation of vis-à-vis was reasonably useful by one of its three definitions, but not what Defoe wrote. So, even a literary snob can stumble on a forehead-smacking discovery. ÅΓª╥┐↕§ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the non-word "viz" zmjezhd #195387 12/29/2010 5:48 PM Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Aramis addict Aramis addict Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US The answer to a consonant-heavy query is that it leaps the fence between empty-headed and curiously odd combined with an archaic nature. Perhaps "vid." was already taken in 1722. 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