come

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English coman, cuman (“to come, go, happen”), from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-, *gʷém-, *gʷem-ye- (“to come, go, be born”).

cognates

Cognate with Scots cum (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Low German kamen (“to come”), Dutch komen (“to come”), German kommen (“to come”), Danish komme (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Icelandic koma (“to come”), Latin veniō (“come, arrive”), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born, come into the world, arrive”), Avestan  (ǰamaiti, “to go”), Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati, “to go”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

come (third-person singular simple present comes, present participle coming, simple past came, past participle come or comen (archaic))

  1. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
    She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes...
  2. (intransitive) To arrive
    The guests came at eight o'clock.
  3. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
    The pain in his leg comes and goes.
  4. (intransitive) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
    Which letter comes before Y?
    Winter comes after autumn.
  5. (intransitive, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum.
    He came after a few minutes.
  6. (copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
    They came very close to leaving on time.
    His test scores came close to perfect.
  7. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
    He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
  8. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
    He was a dream come true.
  9. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
    He's as tough as they come.
    Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours.
  10. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
    You can't come any tricks here.

Usage notes[edit]

The phrase "dream come true" is a set phrase; the verb "come" in the sense "become" is archaic outside of that set phrase.

The collocations “come with” and “come along” mean accompany, used as “Do you want to come with me?” and “Do you want to come along?” In the Midwestern American dialect, “come with” can occur without a following object, as in “Do you want to come with?” In this dialect, “with” can also be used in this way with some other verbs, such as “take with”. Examples of this may be found in plays by Chicagoan David Mamet, such as American Buffalo.[1] This objectless use is not permissible in other dialects.

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Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from come (verb)

Translations[edit]

to move from further away to nearer to
to arrive, to appear
to have a relative position in a sequence
to orgasm
to become
to turn out to be

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Noun[edit]

come (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
    • 1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, II:
      “If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
  2. (slang) Semen, or female ejaculatory discharge.

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Preposition[edit]

come

  1. when an event has occurred or a time has arrived
    Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoctions to offer your guests.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Chicago Dialect

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Galician[edit]

Verb[edit]

come

  1. third-person singular present indicative of comer
  2. second-person singular imperative of comer

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin quomodo + et. Cognate to French comme. See also Spanish como/cómo and Catalan com.

Adverb[edit]

come

  1. how
    Come stai? (informal)
    How are you?
    Come sta? (formal)
    How are you?
  2. as, like
    Blu come il mare,
    As blue as the sea.

Derived terms[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

come

  1. as soon as
    Come arrivò... - As soon as he arrived...

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Adjective[edit]

cōme

  1. nominative neuter singular of cōmis
  2. accusative neuter singular of cōmis
  3. vocative neuter singular of cōmis

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: co‧me

Verb[edit]

come

  1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of comer
  2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of comer

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin comede (imperative), comedit (present).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

come (infinitive comer)

  1. third person singular present tense of comer 'to eat'
  2. second person singular imperative of comer
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