tocome

See also: to-come and to come

English

Etymology

From to +‎ come, or from Middle English tocome, from Old English tōcyme.

Noun

tocome (plural not attested)

1. 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

• come to, moc toe

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)

1. When something comes; an arrival, onset.
2. The future

Derived terms

• wordes of tocome

Descendants

• English: to-come
• Scots: tocome

References

• “tocome, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 April 2018.

Scots

Alternative forms

• tocum

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)

1. (intransitive) To arrive.
2. (of a letter, package, etc.) To arrive at, reach a destination; come to a person's attention.
3. (of an event) To happen; to be about to happen.
4. (transitive) To encounter

Derived terms

• to-coming

Etymology 2

From Middle English to-come, from Old English tōcyme (“coming, advent, arrival”).

Noun

tocome (plural tocomes)

1. A future period of time.

   in tocum ― in the future

2. An approach; onset.
3. An entrance.