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Answer : ETC
Et cetera (English: /ɛtˈsɛtərə/, Latin: [ɛt ˈkeːtɛra]), abbreviated to etc., etc, et cet.,&c., or &c, is a Latin expression that is used in English to mean “and other similar things”, or “and so forth”. Translated literally from Latin, et means ‘and’, while cētera means ‘the rest’; thus the expression means ‘and the rest (of such things)’.
Et cetera is a calque of the Koine Greek καὶ τὰ ἕτερα (kai ta hetera) meaning ‘and the other things’. The typical Modern Greek form is και τα λοιπά (kai ta loipá), ‘and the remainder’.
The one-word spelling “etcetera” appears in some dictionaries. The abbreviated form &c. or &c is still occasionally used (the ampersand character, &, derives from a ligature of et).
The phrase et cetera is often used to denote the logical continuation of some sort of series of descriptions. For example, in the following expression:
We will need a lot of bread: wheat, granary, wholemeal, etc.
In this case of a use at the end of a list without conjunction, a comma is typically written in front of the phrase. If etc. is used at the end of a sentence, the dot is not doubled. If it occurs at the end of exclamations, questions or a clause, the dot is not suppressed but followed by whatever punctuation marks are required to end or continue the sentence.
In blackletter (Gothic or Fraktur) typography, the “r rotunda” (ꝛ) is sometimes used for et in place of the similar-looking Tironian et (⁊), followed by c, to yield ꝛc.
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