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βViz.β, meaning βthat is to sayβ, is an abbreviation of the Latin term VIDELICET. The reason it ends in a Z, while the original word does not, is that the Z is not really a Z at all, but a Latin shorthand symbol or siglum, κͺ , once used to represent the pair of letters βetβ.