forthcoming

Meanings

Adjective

• Approaching or about to take place.
• Available when needed; in place, ready.
• Willing to co-operate or provide information; candid, frank, responsive.

Noun

• An act of coming forth.
• Something that is yet to come.

Verb

• Present participle of forthcome

Origin

• The adjective is derived from forth + coming; or from Middle English forth commyng, *forthcominge, present participle of forth-comen, from Old English forþcuman, forþ-cuman (present participle *forþcumende), from forþ- (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per-) + cuman (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-). Compare Dutch voortkomend, German fortkommend.
• The noun is derived from forth + coming.
• From forthcome + -ing.