come

Meanings

Verb

• To move from further away to nearer to.
• To arrive.
• To appear, to manifest itself.
• To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
• To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
• To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
• To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
• To become butter by being churned
• To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
• To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
• To become, to turn out to be.
• To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
• To carry through; to succeed in.
• Happen.
• To have as an origin, originate.
• To germinate.
• To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.

Noun

• coming, arrival; approach.
• semen
• Female ejaculatory discharge.
• Alternative of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.

Interjection

• An exclamation to express annoyance.
• An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

Related

Opposite words

• leave, go, depart, exit, withdraw, retreat, flee

Origin

• From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-.
• Cognate from Proto-Germanic 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"), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish komme ("to come"), Swedish komma ("to come"), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic koma ("to come").
• Cognate from PIE via Latin veniō with many Romance language terms (e.g., French venir, Portuguese vir, Spanish venir), Lithuanian gimti, with terms in Iranian languages (e.g. Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌), via Sanskrit गच्छति with many Indic language terms (e.g., Hindi गति).
• Cognate to English basis, from PIE via Ancient Greek.
• See comma.