tocome
English
Etymology
From to + come, or from Middle English tocome, from Old English tōcyme.
Noun
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.
- 2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning[1]:
- This will ensure that we shall not need to depend on a[sic] outside uranium to make electricity in the tocome.
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
- 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
From Old English tōcyme (“arrival, coming”).
Noun
tocome (plural tocomes)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “tocome, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 April 2018.
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
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
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
Etymology 2
From Middle English to-come, from Old English tōcyme (“coming, advent, arrival”).
Noun
tocome (plural tocomes)