Et cetera, abbreviated to etc., et cet., &c. or &c, is a Latin expression that is used in English to mean "and other things", or "and so forth". Translated literally from Latin, et means 'and', while cētera means 'the rest'; thus, the expression translates to 'and the rest '.
The &c (et ceterarum, "Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland and another") shows that Oliver Cromwell did not renounce the English claims on France
The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters et—Latin for "and".
Bilingual Irish street sign, with parallel agus and ampersand.
An ampersand written with a vertical stroke
An ampersand written with the vertical stroke merged into the edges
A handwritten plus sign used, like the ampersand, to mean "and"