tocome
English edit
Etymology edit
From to + come, or from Middle English tocome, from Old English tōcyme.
Noun edit
tocome (plural not attested)
- Alternative form of to-come (“future”)
- 1870, J. Payn, The F. B.; being a history of the school and college life of two young men, page 166:
- Legion was perhaps the only one of all the forty who looked forward to wearing his Majesty's uniform with satisfaction, a lad to whom the Tocome seemed always promising, and the Present never unbearable.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
- tocomene, tocom, tocum, tocume, tokume, tocime, tocyme, tokime, tokyme, to come, to comene, to com, to cum, to cume, to kume, to cime, to cyme, to kime, to kyme
Etymology edit
From Old English tōcyme (“arrival, coming”).
Noun edit
tocome (plural tocomes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “tocome, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 April 2018.
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English tocomen (“to come, arrive, happen”), from Old English tōcuman (“to come, arrive”), from Proto-Germanic *tō (“to”), *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to to- + come. Cognate with Dutch toekomen (“to forward, deserve, merit, suffice”), German zukommen (“to come on, benefit, become”).
Verb edit
tocome (third-person singular simple present tocomes, present participle tocomin, simple past tocam, past participle tocomen or tocomet)
- (intransitive) To arrive.
- (of a letter, package, etc.) To arrive at, reach a destination; come to a person's attention.
- (of an event) To happen; to be about to happen.
- (transitive) To encounter
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English to-come, from Old English tōcyme (“coming, advent, arrival”).
Noun edit
tocome (plural tocomes)