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come from

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcomen from.

Verb

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come from (third-person singular simple presentcomes from,present participlecoming from,simple pastcame from,past participlecome from)

(transitive) To have as one'sorigin,birthplace ornationality.
Most tourists in Mallorcacome from England. My girlfriendcomes from Sweden.
- 1822 June–July (date written),Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Triumph of Life”, inMary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor,Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] forJohn and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published1824,→OCLC,page89:
  Thoucomest from the realm without a name,[…]
- 1883,Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood turns Butcher”, inThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […],→OCLC, part second,page48:
  Not so much as one farthing would I take from thee, for I love a fair Saxon face like thine right well; more especially when itcometh from Locksley Town, and most especially when the man that owneth it is to marry a bonny lass on Thursday next.
- 1900 December –1901 October,Rudyard Kipling, chapter IV, inKim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library;no. 414), London:Macmillan and Co., published1901,→OCLC,page107:
  Hai, my son, thou hast never learned all that since thoucamest fromBelait (Europe). Who suckled thee?
- 1993 December 12,Jim Sheridan,Terry George,In the Name of the Father, spoken byGerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed byUniversal Pictures:
  To explain how I happened to be in England in 1974 at the time of the bombing, I better take you back to Northern Ireland, where Icome from.
(transitive) To bederived from.
- 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, inAmerican Scientist‎^[1], volume101, number 4, page264:
  Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The namecomes from the Latinturbo, meaningvortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
(transitive, slightly informal) To derive one's opinion or argument from; to take as a conceptualstarting point.
Antonyms:drive at,get at
Even though I have a more progressive philosophy, I can understand where he'scoming from. There was a time in my life when it was hard for me to adapt to change, myself.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofcome from
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to)come from

1st-person singular	come from	came from
2nd-person singular	come from,comest from^†	came from,camest from^†
3rd-person singular	comes from,cometh from^†	came from
plural	come from	came from

subjunctive	come from	came from

imperative	come from	—

participles	coming from	came from

^†Archaic orobsolete.

Translations

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have as one's birthplace or nationality

Chinese:
Mandarin:來自 /来自 (zh)(láizì)
Estonian:pärit olema
Finnish:tulla (fi)(+ elative or ablative),olla (fi)(+ elative or ablative)
Portuguese:vir de,ser de
Vietnamese:đến từ,quê ở,ở (vi)(colloquial)

be derived from

Chinese:
Mandarin:源自 (zh)(yuánzì)
Estonian:pärit olema
Finnish:tulla (fi)(+ elative or ablative),polveutua (fi)
Mari:
Eastern Mari:шочаш(šočaš)
Portuguese:vir de
Vietnamese:đến từ

derive one's opinions from

Chinese:
Mandarin:以……為依據 /以……为依据(yǐ... wéi yījù),想法 (zh)(xiǎngfǎ)(can also simply use this noun instead)
Finnish:perustaa näkemyksensä(not used for expressions like "... where one is coming from")
Portuguese:ver o lado de,entender (pt)(for expressions like "...where one is coming from")

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Danish:komme fra
French:venir de (fr)
Khmer:មកពី(mɔɔk pii)

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