Word.ws English Dictionary

&c.

&c. is the archaic form of etc..

Forms of &c.

alternative form&c

Origin of &c.

A use of the ligature & to stand for the et in etc. Compare & cetera.

Questions about &c.

What is &c. the archaic form of?
&c. is the archaic form of etc..

Words near &c. in the dictionary

  1. & seqq.
  2. & ux.
  3. & uxor
  4. &/or
  5. &c
  6. &c.
  7. &ca
  8. &ca.
  9. &lit
  10. &lits
  11. '

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: &c. (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “&c..” Word.ws, https://word.ws/%26c.. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.