scilicet

‘that is, namely, to wit’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    E. scillicet < Lat. scire licit ‘it is permitted to know’ < scire ‘to know’ < O O.F. science ‘knowledge, learning, application; corpus of human knowledge’ < Lat. scientia ‘knowledge, a knowing; expertness’ < sciens ‘intelligent, skilled’ < scire ‘to know’ < scindere ‘to cut, divide’ + licit < siliset < skei- < Tamil kappu

English words derived from Tamil kappal connoting 'ship'