Et cetera and Et al

Et al and et cetera are semantically related. in and the rest topic. In some cases you can use "Et al" instead a noun phrase "Et cetera".

Et al adverb - And others ('et al.' is used as an abbreviation of `et alii' (masculine plural) or `et aliae' (feminine plural) or `et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people).

Et cetera and et al are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Et cetera" with "Et al", this phrases are similar.