Where does “eċċetra” come from?

eċċetra (Maltese) comes from Italian eccetera, 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.

eċċetra (Maltese): et cetera, and so on, and so forth

Definitions

et cetera, and so on, and so forth

Ancestry of “eċċetra”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Italian	eccetera	et cetera, and so on, and so forth
2	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

Every word from Latin et cetera →Every word from Italian eccetera →