came

See also: camé, cá mè, and Came

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keɪm/, [kʰeɪ̯m]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [kʰeːm]
  • (Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): [keːm], [kɛːm]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪm

Etymology 1

See come.

Verb

came

1. simple past of come
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of come
   • 1812, The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time‎^[1], volume 16, T.C. Hansard, page 335:

     With that army the British army, in the course of its operations, must have came in contact; and, if that were likely, (may rather if it was impossible to avoid it.) I will ask, whether, under all the circumstances of Europe […]

   • 2006, Kaspar Richter, Thailand's Growth Path: From Recovery to Prosperity‎^[2], The World Bank, page 50:

     Thailand's expansion of access to secondary and tertiary education is unlikely to have came at the expense of quality. International achievement test^[sic] show Thai students consistently outperforming not just Indonesia, whose per capita national income is less than half of Thailand's […]

   • 2011 April 1, Angie Daniels, Careful of the Company You Keep‎^[3], Kensington Publishing Corp, page 53:

     I don't know why her ass couldn't have just waited until I had got ready so we could have came together. It's bad enough I even have to be in this mothafucka.

3. simple past of cum

Preposition

came

1. Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
   • 1921, Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, If Winter Comes‎^[4], page 256:

     Came Christmas by which, at the outset, everybody knew it would be over, and it was not over. Came June, 1915, concerning which, at the outset, he had joined with Mr. Fortune, Twyning and Harold in laughter at his own grotesque idea of the war lasting to the dramatic effect of a culminating battle on the centenary of Waterloo, and the war had lasted, and was still lasting.

Synonyms

• (following event etc, in the past after waiting): by, when [event, period, change in state] came/arrived

See also

• come (preposition)

Etymology 2

Attested from the 17th century, of unknown origin. Possibly from kame (“a ridge”). Compare Scots came (“comb”), Scots kame (“combing; a ridge”), and Middle English camet (“silver”).

Noun

came (plural cames)

1. A grooved strip of metal, traditionally usually lead or brass and today sometimes stainless steel, used to hold panes of glass together in glazing.

Translations

A grooved strip of metal for glasswork

• French: plomb (fr) m
• Polish: ramka (pl) f

Further reading

• “came”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• ACME, Acme, ECMA, EMAC, Mace, Mače, acme, eMac, mace

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Noun

came f (plural cames)

1. cam (part of engine)

Derived terms

• arbre à cames

Descendants

• → Romanian: camă

Etymology 2

Clipping of camelote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.mø/

Noun

came f (plural cames)

1. stuff, trinket
   • 2018 August 4, Lasko Kelvin (lyrics and music), “3 Minutes Chrono”‎^[5], from 1:22:

     Ouais fait beleck a la came ouais fait beleck a la came
     Pour mes maliens et mes camers descente dans ta tess on arrive en camion
     Sur le tec’ y’a mon gars Kama des geush de beuh une dizaine de camés

     Keep care of your stuff, keep care of your stuff, aye, aye
     For my Malians and my Cameroonians descend into the ends in a truck,
     Into the dormitory town, there is my man Kama from the hemp nitties, a dozen of druggies.

2. “stuff”, drug

Derived terms

• camer

Etymology 3

Inflected form of camer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Verb

came

1. inflection of camer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “came”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

cāme

1. vocative singular of cāmus

Northern Kurdish

Noun

came ?

1. dress, clothing, garment

Derived terms

• camedank

Portuguese

Um came (em amarelo).

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kamm.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.me/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.mɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.mɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.mɨ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧me

Noun

came m (plural cames)

1. cam

   Synonym: camo

Further reading

• “came”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English cambe (“comb”).

Noun

came (plural cames)

1. alternative spelling of kame (“an act of combing; a steep-sided hill or ridge”)
2. (archaic) a comb (toothed instrument for grooming hair or separating wool fibers)
   • 1908, L. Macbean, The Kirkcaldy Burgh Records, page 315:

     to deliver the airship gudis efter following: […] ane riddell, ane malt schul, ane kill claith, ane hors came, within terme of law, under pane punding of hir reddiest gudis

     to deliver the following movable goods: one sieve, one malt shovel, one kiln-cloth, one horse comb, as set forth by law, under pain of impounding her finished goods

3. (archaic) a crest or comb of a bird
4. (archaic) honeycomb
   • 1839, Gawin Douglas, The Æneid of Virgil translated into Scottish verse, page 48:

     Quhen of thar kynd thame lift swarmys furth bryng,
     Or in camys inclus thar hwny cleyn

     When they rise up and bring forth swarms of their kind, Or enclose in combs their pure honey