What is the Full Form of etc ?

etc – Et cetera

Et cetera is the Latin expression that means “and other things”, or “and so forth”. It is used to express the series of similar things involved in a discussion, which can be abandoned in the expression by writing etc. etc has been added to almost all English dictionaries to represent such discussions.

For ex. If an owner of a shop wants to list all the items in his shop, he may avoid writing some items by putting ‘etc’ at the end of the list.

Sentence – Following are the list of items you may find here – Soaps, Toothpaste, Wheat, Rice, Tea, Coffee, Sugar, etc.