"cetera" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a Latin word that means "and so on" or "and other similar things." One can use "cetera" when listing a series of items and wants to indicate that there are more items that could be included in the list, but are not necessary to mention. For example: "I love to travel to exotic places such as Bali, Thailand, and the Maldives, among cetera."
And there are reports, as you know, of serious fighting in Aleppo and Idlib, et cetera.
Democrats then used Medvedev's words to bolster their attacks on Romney, and Republicans called out Democrats for using a Russian President's words positively, et cetera.
He said: "We were taken to their bank, their management company, their solicitor, et cetera".
This "German question" has changed over the centuries whether the Holy Roman Empire would centralise or stay fragmented, whether and how Germany in the 19th century would unify, et cetera.
Not to mention the drugs we buy, both prescription and over the counter: birth-control pills, antihistamines, antidepressants, anti-retrovirals, et cetera.
It has historical ties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1890 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1884 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1866 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1847 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837 et cetera.
"Do you have children?" Et cetera.
While bewildered Koreans watch pigeons pecking grain in Trafalgar Square, Hahn will be poised to peck at them: great fleas have little fleas, et cetera.
And in the last two, three races, there was also some help in the race itself in terms of positions gained, et cetera".
Assad may be a bad guy et cetera, but at least he's a "rational actor", as the academics like to say.
Filling in the historical gap between the last two of the trio is the National Gallery of Scotland's Van Gogh to Kandinsky (14 July to 14 October), the first exhibition in Europe to dedicate itself to Symbolist landscape – Gauguin's Breton fields, Van Gogh's starry nights, et cetera.
