Where does “etcetera” come from?
Etcetera comes from Latin et cetera, meaning "and the rest," from et meaning "and" and cetera meaning "the remaining things."
Ancestry of “etcetera”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | et cetera | et cetera, and the rest, and so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information continues in a similar or already-known fashion |