Where does “etcetera” come from?
etcetera (Hungarian) comes from 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.
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 |