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From: rjnoe@uniq.UUCP (Roger J. Noe)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: What does "which see" mean in documentation?
Message-ID: <313@uniq.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 15:27:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: uniq.313
Posted: Wed Jul 15 15:27:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 03:59:20 EDT
References: <932@ttidca.TTI.COM> <598@unmvax.UNM.EDU>
Organization: Uniq Digital Technologies, Batavia, IL
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Summary: quod vide, not videlicet

In article <598@unmvax.UNM.EDU>, mike@turing.UUCP writes:
> In article <932@ttidca.TTI.COM> spencer@.UUCP (David Spencer) writes:
> >	What does "which see" mean?
> 
> This comes from the Latin abbreviation `viz.'  `Viz.' comes from the
> verb `to see.' . . . . It means `which
> see,' or, in more common parlance, `see also.'

No, "viz." is an abbreviation for the Latin "videlicet" which is an adverb
meaning "namely".  What Spencer is after here is "q.v.", the abbreviation
for "quod vide".  "See also" is a fairly good colloquial rendering of that.
"Which see" is a literal translation.  You could expand on this by reading
"q.v." (or "qq.v.") as "which you can also look up [here] in relation to
this same subject."  Roughly.
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