Viz.

縮寫 viz. (或者無句點的 viz)是拉丁語 videlicet 的縮寫，而 videlicet 本身是拉丁語短語 videre licet 的縮寫，意思是「可以看到」。^[1]^[2]^[3] 它被用作「即」、「也就是說」、「也就是」、「即是」或「如下」的同義詞。它通常用於引入示例或更詳細的細節來闡明某一觀點。例如: 「all types of data viz. text, audio, video, pictures, graphics, can be transmitted through networking」意為「所有類型的數據，如文本、音頻、視頻、圖片、圖形等，都可以通過網絡傳輸。」。^[4]

詞源

Viz. 是副詞 videlicet 的縮寫。它使用一種名為提洛尼亞的拉丁速記系統。它由前兩個字母「 vi」和後兩個字母「 et」組成，使用了歷史上寫作的提洛尼亞寫法的「7」的 Z 形，這是古羅馬和中世紀歐洲拉丁語速記中「 et」的常見縮寫。^[5]^{[note 1]}

^ According to E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the same abbreviation mark was used for "habet" and "omnibus".

^ Oxford English Dictionary
^ The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (revised third edition, 1998), pp. 825, 828.
^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fourth edition, 2000), p. 1917
^ 'videlicet', Random House Dictionary. dictionary.com. [19 March 2015]. （原始內容存檔於2015-04-02）.
^ Brewer, Ebenezer. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. New York: Harper & Row. 1970: 1132.

[6] According to E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the same abbreviation mark was used for "habet" and "omnibus".

[1] Oxford English Dictionary

[2] The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (revised third edition, 1998), pp. 825, 828.

[3] American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fourth edition, 2000), p. 1917

[4] 'videlicet', Random House Dictionary. dictionary.com. [19 March 2015]. （原始內容存檔於2015-04-02）.

[5] Brewer, Ebenezer. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. New York: Harper & Row. 1970: 1132.

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