Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!uniq!rjnoe 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 Lines: 19 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. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!uniq!rjnoe Uniq Digital Technologies rjnoe@uniq.UUCP 28 South Water Street +1 312 879 1566 Batavia, Illinois 60510 41:50:56 N. 88:18:35 W.