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wenteth

wenteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wend.

wenteth is the alternative third-person singular past of go.

Meaning of wend

Verb

wend (third-person singular simple present wends, present participle wending, simple past and past participle wended or (archaic) went)

  1. (transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
    • We wended our weary way westward.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To turn; change, to adapt.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
    • with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold waterc. 1611, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse on the Invention of Ships &c.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

See all 7 meanings of wend

Meaning of go

Verb

go (third-person singular simple present goes, present participle going, simple past went or (obsolete) yode or (nonstandard) goed, past participle gone or (nonstandard) went)

  1. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
    • Why don’t you go with us?
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  2. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
    • Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  3. (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc.).
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    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  4. To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
    • We've only gone twenty miles today.
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  5. (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
    • We went swimming.
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  6. (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
    • Please don't go!

See all 86 meanings of go

Origin of wenteth

From went + -eth. Sense 2 is a pseudo-loan from Middle English derived from went + -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 go.

Words formed from wenteth

Questions about wenteth

What is wenteth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wenteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wend.

Words near wenteth in the dictionary

  1. Wentbridge
  2. wente
  3. wenten
  4. Wentes
  5. wentest
  6. wenteth
  7. Wentland
  8. Wentlands
  9. wentletrap
  10. wentletraps
  11. Wentling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wenteth (page history and authors); wend (page history and authors); go (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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