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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Middle English comen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemanan (compare West Frisian komme, Dutch komen, German kommen), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-/gʷem-ye- (compare Latin veniō, Tocharian A kumnäs, B känmask, Lithuanian gimti 'to be born', Ancient Greek βαίνω (bainō), báskein 'to walk, go', Avestan ǰamaiti 'to go', Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati)), Hittite wemiyezi 'he finds'.

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

  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) Alternative spelling of cum. To achieve orgasm.
    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.

[edit] Usage notes

Used in the collocations “come with” and “come along” to mean accompany, used as “Do you want to come with me?” and “Do you want to come along?” In Midwestern American dialect, “come with” can occur in sentence final, as in “Do you want to come with?” but not in other dialects; “with” can also be used in this way with some other verbs, such as “take with”.

Examples exist in plays by Chicagoan David Mamet, such as American Buffalo.[1]

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Terms derived from come (verb)

[edit] Translations

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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[edit] Noun

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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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.

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  1. ^ Chicago Dialect

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come

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

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

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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.

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come

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

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cōme

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

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  • Hyphenation: co‧me

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come

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

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Latin comede (imperative), comedit (present).

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come (infinitive comer)

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