ff.

Etymology
Abbreviation of, ablative of.

Phrase

 * 1) and the following (pages, paragraphs etc.)

Usage notes

 * The abbreviation is used in citation to refer to a section for which no final page number can usefully be given. If there is only a single section following,  may be used instead.
 * More properly, it is still used, as originally, to refer to the next page or pages in a citation. As such, Hornblower 258 f. would refer to pages 258–259, whereas 258 ff. would refer to an undetermined number of pages following page 258.

Translations

 * Catalan: (p. 3 s., p. 3s. - pàgina 3 i següents)
 * Danish: ff.
 * Finnish: ja seur.
 * French: et ss. (et suivantes), (p. 3 et ss. - page 3 et suivantes), (page x et suivantes)
 * German:
 * Greek: κ.εξ.
 * Lingala: el. (eso landa)
 * Spanish: ss. (p. 3 y ss., p. 3 ss. - página 3 y siguientes), y sigs.
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Phrase

 * 1) ff. (and the following pages)

Etymology
Originally the plural of the abbreviation of, ablative of. Later also explained as an abbreviation of.

Adjective

 * 1)    “following”, “subsequent”; . The word fortfolgend has been coined as a folk-etymological explanation of this abbreviation and is not commonly encountered in other use than this fanciful explanation, which is in fact a backronym.
 * 2) * 1926–8, Leumann–Hofmann–Szantyr, Lateinische Grammatik I: Lateinische Laut- und Formenlehre (2nd ed., 1977), Formenlehre Nomen II.B, § 273:1.d, page 290:
 * "de"

- Lit. zu den Gentilicia (aus Patronymika): Schulze, EN 385 f. -eius, 432 ff. -eius (bei etrusk. Namenstämmen älter noch -aeus), 457 f. -eius und -uleius; dazu 284 lēguleius sterteius.