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The &c (et ceterarum, "[Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland] and of others") shows that Oliver Cromwell did not renounce the English claims on France.

Et cetera is a Latin expression that means "and other things", or "and so on". It is taken directly from the Latin expression which literally means "and the rest (of such things)." Et means "and"; cetera (plural of ceterum/caeterum) means "the rest." Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Cromwellcoin. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Cromwellcoin. ... For other uses, see Oliver Cromwell (disambiguation). ... The English claims to the French throne have a long and rather complex history between the 1340s and the 1800s. ... Et cetera may refer to the subject of one of the following articles. ... ETC can refer to: Electronic toll collection Electronic throttle control Estimated Time of/to Completion Et cetera Electronic Theatre Controls Electron transport chain in mitochondria responsible for creating a proton gradient that allows the formation of ATP. ATM card service by HSBC and Hang Seng Bank only for withdrawal of... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...

It is also sometimes spelled et caetera or et cætera, and is often abbreviated to etc. Archaic abbreviations, most commonly used in legislation, notations for mathematics or qualifications, include &/c., &c., and &ca..

The phrase et cetera is often used to represent the logical continuation of some sort of series of descriptions. For example, in the following expression...

We will need a lot of fruit: apples, bananas, oranges, etc.

... the 'etc.' stands for 'and other types of fruit'. It is an error to say or write "and etc.," in which the word "and" would be redundant. This would translate as "and and the rest".

Typically, the abbreviated versions should always be followed by a full stop (period), and it is customary—even in British English where the serial comma is typically not used—that "etc." always be preceded by a comma. Thus: For other uses, see Full stop (disambiguation). ... British English (BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere in the Anglophone world. ... The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is the comma used immediately before a grammatical conjunction (nearly always and or or; sometimes nor) that precedes the last item in a list of three or more items. ...

A, B, C, etc.

not:

A, B, C etc

It should be noted however that some publishing house styles (particularly in Britain) no longer require either the preceding comma or the following stop. In general, writers are advised to use the traditional style unless circumstances dictate otherwise.

In some situations, an ellipsis ("…") can be a substitute for ", et cetera." when it is used at the end of a sentence, as in: This article is about the punctuation symbol. ...

We need a lot of fruit: apples, bananas, oranges...

In lists of persons, et al. is used in place of etc. (an abbreviation of et alii, meaning "and others"). Less common is the use of et al. in lists of places (where it abbreviates et alibi, meaning "and elsewhere".)

A common misspelling of the abbreviation is "ect."; a common mispronunciation is "ex cetera." Mispronunciation is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as bad pronunciation. The matter of what is or is not mispronunciation is a contentious one, and indeed there is some disagreement about the extent to which the term is even meaningful. ...

See also

Look up et cetera in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• List of Latin phrases
• Ellipses (…) may be used for a similar function.
• Inter caetera ("Among other [works]"), a papal bull.