英文一句话结尾经常出现etc，这里的etc是什么意思？

Question

In Project 2000, you can customize task bars so that they have, for example, different colours for special purposes when, for instance, you want to distinguish between different resources, departments, contracts, etc. 这里的etc是什么意思？

Answer 1

列举的时候省略的部分，相当于等等。

Answer 2

汉语中等的意思追问

它应该是英文缩写吧？是哪几个单词的缩写

追答

etcetera [it'setrз et-] 源于拉丁语