Et cetera

Et cetera means "and the rest" in Latin. It is often used in English to continue a list longer than what can be written. The word et cetera is often written as etc.. Rarely, it is written as &c, or &. It is the same as et ‒ formed by the joining of "e" and "t" into a single letter. It is also the symbol for "and". Some write it as ect, which is wrong, because it is an incorrect abbreviation of et cetera.

Examples

• "Jane has a lot of pets. She has cats, dogs, cows, horses, rabbits, kangaroos, etc."
• "Rocco ordered a lot of chips. He ordered cheese puffs, potato chips, Pringles, etc."
• "Robert ordered a large amount of groceries to stock for later. He ordered eggs, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes etc."