Middle English Dictionary Entry
et cetera Latin phr.
Entry Info
| Forms | et cetera Latin phr. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
And so forth, and so on; and others.
Associated quotations
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)6/10 : Ær þan þu þisne æppel nyme, cweþ þane þus word 'Ic nime þe & cetera.'
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)70b/b : It is I write þere þat Sarra chastide here and bete here & cetera.
- (1418) EEWills37/2 : In ward &c, a furre of beuer and oter medled.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.4.76 : Yit is the planete in horoscopo, be it in nativyte or in eleccion, etc.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)154/11 : The countesse moder vnto the erle et cetera.
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)186 : Poul seith..it is nede that the lawe be translatid, et cetera.
- (a1475) Recipe Painting(2) in Archaeol.J.1 (Sln 73)155 : Wasche the salt clene fro the colour with faire comoun water, etc.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)65/8 : Dayes þer beþ of peril, þe xv day and þe xviii day in þe monþ, et cetera.