et cetera vs etc.

et cetera

phrase
  • The full form of etc.: and so forth, and the rest. 

noun
  • Something in addition, which can easily be understood. 

etc.

phrase
  • And so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information has been left out on the assumption that it is similar or already known. 

How often have the words et cetera and etc. occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )