And, this everyday Latin word

It is not surprising that this word comes from Latin.

is often written "e" in Old French, the t was restored in the twelfth century, from Latin.

“And” is what is known as a coordinating conjunction used to join two words or two sentences to express opposition or reinforcement.

A word with almost universal use

“And” is a word whose usage is almost universal.

It can be placed at the head of exclamatory or interrogative sentences with an emphatic value;

it can be added to the end of an enumeration, link two elements of different nature.

It long replaced the hyphens in the units, ten and seven, instead of our current seventeen, and still today connects the units to the other tens names (thirty, forty… and one).

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It can also indicate what is called a simultaneity of characteristics:

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It often replaces “after which”:

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We can also find a logical “and” and an inductive “and”:

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