Where does “et cetera” come from?

et cetera (Romanian) comes from Romanian etcetera, 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.

et cetera (Romanian): Alternative spelling of etcetera

Definitions

Alternative spelling of etcetera

Ancestry of “et cetera”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Romanian	etcetera	et cetera
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 Romanian etcetera →