came

See also: camé, cá mè, and Came

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keɪm/, [kʰeɪ̯m]

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• Rhymes: -eɪm

Etymology 1

Verb

came

1. simple past of come
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of come
   • 1812, The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time‎^[1], volume 16, T.C. Hansard, page 335:

     With that army the British army, in the course of its operations, must have came in contact; and, if that were likely, (may rather if it was impossible to avoid it.) I will ask, whether, under all the circumstances of Europe […]

   • 2006, Kaspar Richter, Thailand's Growth Path: From Recovery to Prosperity‎^[2], The World Bank, page 50:

     Thailand's expansion of access to secondary and tertiary education is unlikely to have came at the expense of quality. International achievement test^[sic] show Thai students consistently outperforming not just Indonesia, whose per capita national income is less than half of Thailand's […]

   • 2011 April 1, Angie Daniels, Careful of the Company You Keep‎^[3], Kensington Publishing Corp, page 53:

     I don't know why her ass couldn't have just waited until I had got ready so we could have came together. It's bad enough I even have to be in this mothafucka.

3. simple past of cum

Preposition

came

1. Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation

Synonyms

• (following event etc, in the past after waiting): by, when [event, period, change in state] came/arrived

See also

• come (preposition)

Etymology 2

Compare Scots came (“comb”), caim (“comb”), and Middle English camet (“silver”).

Noun

came (plural cames)

1. A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.

Translations

A grooved strip of lead

• French: plomb (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

References

• “came”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• ACME, Acme, ECMA, EMAC, Mace, Mače, acme, eMac, mace

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Noun

came f (plural cames)

1. cam (part of engine)

Derived terms

• arbre à cames

Descendants

• → Romanian: camă

Etymology 2

Clipping of camelote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.mø/

Noun

came f (plural cames)

1. stuff, trinket
   • 2018 August 4, Lasko Kelvin (lyrics and music), “3 Minutes Chrono”‎^[4], from 1:22:

     Ouais fait beleck a la came ouais fait beleck a la came
     Pour mes maliens et mes camers descente dans ta tess on arrive en camion
     Sur le tec’ y’a mon gars Kama des geush de beuh une dizaine de camés

     Keep care of your stuff, keep care of your stuff, aye, aye
     For my Malians and my Cameroonians descend into the ends in a truck,
     Into the dormitory town, there is my man Kama from the hemp nitties, a dozen of druggies.

2. “stuff”, drug

Derived terms

• camer

Etymology 3

Inflected form of camer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Verb

came

1. inflection of camer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “came”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cāme

1. vocative singular of cāmus

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Northern Kurdish

Noun

came ?

1. dress, clothing, garment

Derived terms

• camedank