cameth
cameth is the alternative third-person singular past of come.
Meaning of come
Verb
come (third-person singular simple present comes, present participle coming, simple past came or (dialectal) come, past participle come or (dialectal) came or comen)
- To move nearer to the point of perspective.
- She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]
- To move toward the speaker.
- I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
- To move toward the listener.
- Hold on, I'll come in a second.
- To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
- To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.
- King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
- To move toward an unstated agent.
- The butler should come when called.
Origin of cameth
Pseudo-loan from Middle English, derived from came + -eth, an incorrect application of the archaic marker of the third-person singular present tense (-eth) to the past tense form of the verb to come.
Questions about cameth
- What is cameth the alternative third-person singular past of?
- Cameth is the alternative third-person singular past of come.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cameth (page history and authors); come (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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