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viz.

/vɪz/

viz. adverb: videlicet: namely, to wit, that is to say, specifically, as an illustration.

Adverb

viz. (not comparable)

  1. Videlicet: namely, to wit, that is to say, specifically, as an illustration.
    • I am at this period, viz. in 1812, living in a cottage; […]1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “[Part II.] Introduction to the Pains of Opium.”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey...
    • The fact is, when Captain Dobbin blushed so, and looked so, it was necessary to inform the young ladies, viz., that he had been calling at Mr. Sedley's house already, […]1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

viz. meaning in Tamil

viz. in Tamil

பிறவற்றை, இப்பட்டியில் காணலாம்

Examples of viz. in a sentence

  • This, however, makes it necessary to distinguish between two different types of gaps, viz. between “singular NP gaps” and “plural NP gaps.”1993, Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle, From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and...
  • As to (b), the joint intention, like any intention, commits the intending agents to carry out its content, viz. to act.2012, Matti Sintonen, Realism in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences:

Synonyms of viz.

Forms of viz.

alternative formvid.
alternative formvidel.

Origin of viz.

From Medieval Latin viꝫ, from Latin vidēlicet (“that is to say, namely”), short for vidēre licet (“it is permitted to see”, literally “to-look (it) allows”). The ‘z’ comes from the similarity between ꝫ (‘et’) and the cursive form of the letter z, with the former having originated as a common abbreviation (specifically, a Tironian note), used by Latin scribes in the Middle Ages, for the suffix -et (among others). Compare ⁊ (‘et’), the Tironian symbol for the Latin word et (“and”) and for its equivalents in other European languages (including Old English and) in medieval times.

Words that rhyme with viz.

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Questions about viz.

What does viz. mean?
Viz. means videlicet: namely, to wit, that is to say, specifically, as an illustration.
What is viz. in Tamil?
Viz. in Tamil is பிறவற்றை, இப்பட்டியில் காணலாம். See Viz. meaning in Tamil.
How do you use viz. in a sentence?
This, however, makes it necessary to distinguish between two different types of gaps, viz. between “singular NP gaps” and “plural NP gaps.”
What part of speech is viz.?
Viz. is an adverb.
How do you pronounce viz.?
Viz. is pronounced /vɪz/.

Words near viz. in the dictionary

  1. vixons
  2. Viya
  3. Viyella
  4. Viyellas
  5. viz
  6. viz.
  7. Vizag
  8. Vizagapatam
  9. Vizagpatnam
  10. Vizantea-Livezi
  11. vizard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: viz. (page history and authors); viz. (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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