“namely” in Latin

As a particle of explanation, for the filling up of a foregoing general idea: In this case it is usually not translated, but the word following stands in apposition; e.g., if you would root out avarice, its parent must be rooted out, namely, luxury, avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries (Vid: Ramsh., § 95, 4). Sometimes it is expressed by is est or qui est; as, that most moving eloquence, namely, the natural, *maxime illa movens eloquentia, quae est naturalis, or naturalis ea est. For greater emphasis, we may use dico or inquam (where the context allows the first person of the verb); e.g., the earlier orators, namely, Crassus and Antonius, superiores oratores, Crassum dico et Antonium: for the rest, namely, ourselves, eat birds, nam cetera turba, nos, inquam, cenamus aves (see Ramsh., § 95, 4). In subjoining a special idea as an explanation to a general one, we find et or que (affixed); e.g., at certain times, namely, when duties or urgent circumstances require it, it will often happen that, etc., temporibus quibusdam, et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus, saepe eveniet, ut, etc. (Cic., De Fin., 1, 10, 33). The disease, namely, the plague, morbus pestilentiaque (Liv., 41, 21, 11; Vid: Ramsh., § 188, 2; Drakenb., Liv., 6, 16, 8). [☞ In this sense we rarety find scilicet and videlicet; never nempe or nimirum.]

For subjoining a whole proposition, which serves as an explanation or confirmation of the preceding, nam, enim, etenim [Vid: FOR], quidem (in order to bring out more prominently a word going before, especially the pronouns): nimirum (stronger than the foregoing = evidently, as is well known, etc.); ☞ but we can never so use nempe, scilicet, and videlicet: nempe = “surely, forsooth” is sarcastic or ironical; Vid: Zumpt, § 278.