to wit

Etymology
Originally. See.

Adverb

 * 1)  That is to say; namely; specifically.
 * The directors of the company, to wit, Fred Smith and Albert Jones, inform us that…
 * The defendant is charged with possession of a controlled substance, to wit, cocaine…
 * 1) * July 2000, Todd Greanier, Discover the secrets of the Java Serialization API
 * Though the animation code above demonstrates how a thread could be included as part of an object while still making that object be serializable, there is a major problem with it if we recall how Java creates objects. To wit, when we create an object with the new keyword, the object’s constructor is called only when a new instance of a class is created.
 * Though the animation code above demonstrates how a thread could be included as part of an object while still making that object be serializable, there is a major problem with it if we recall how Java creates objects. To wit, when we create an object with the new keyword, the object’s constructor is called only when a new instance of a class is created.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:specifically or Thesaurus:in other words

Translations

 * Afrikaans: dit wil sê
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: te weten,
 * Esperanto:
 * French: ,
 * German: und zwar, als da wären,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: vidēlicet,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: nemleg
 * Polish:, a mianowicie, a konkretnie,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: eadhan
 * Spanish: a saber