Talk:videlicet
Latest comment: 4 years ago by 1.129.111.176 in topic Usage notes
Etym
[edit]OED goes into a bizarre digression on Latin roots, but AmHD is right here. It's just a contraction of the standard Latin [dep. v.] + [inf.] phrase. — LlywelynII 04:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Usage notes
[edit]The entry states: "Where videlicet is carefully distinguished from scilicet, viz. is used to provide glosses and sc. to provide omitted words or parenthetic clarification."
This is unclear, as a "gloss" [1] is not obviously different from a "parenthetic clarification". A sample sentence containing both forms would be useful to demonstrate the contrast.