Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Et cetera, mostly always abbreviated to etc. (sometimes in older texts as &/c), is Latin for "and the others". It is often used to represent the logical continuation of some sort of series of descriptions. For example: We need a lot of fruit: apples, bananas, oranges, etc. See List of Latin phrases for other common Latin phrases. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.