“come” in Latin

of persons, venire: I am come, veni, adsum: pervenire (PROP. and figuratively): advenire: accedere (approach): to come on foot, pedes venio or advenio: on horseback, equo vehor or advehor: in a carriage, etc., curru, or navi vehor, or advehor: to cause anybody to come, aliquem arcessere, accire; aliquem excire, evocare (the latter on the part of a magistrate; Vid: Bremi, Nep. Con., 5, 3): to one, aliquem ad se arcessere; aliquem ad se vocare: aliquem ad se venire jubere (of a thing; e.g., aliquid arcessere vectura) [Vid: To SEND FOR]: to come (such or such) a way, aliqua via proficisci: to come frequently to a place, ad or in locum ventitare; locum frequentare or celebrare: to come often to anybody, crebro ad aliquem venire; aliquem frequentare: to come unexpectedly, supervenire or intervenire alicui; opprimere aliquem (to come upon. fall upon and destroy): come here, huc veni; huc ades: come to me, propius me huc accede: when they came to speak of the money, ubi ad pecuniae mentionem ventum est: it was by mere accident that I came to speak of them, non consulto, sed casu in corum mentionem incidi: how comes it that you answer in this manner? quid tibi in mentem venit ita respondere?

IMPR., of things, venire (of letters, goods, etc.): ferri, adferri, perferri (to be brought): to come suddenly, ingruere (of disease and calamities): to come imperceptibly, obrepere (of time, old age, etc.): to see anything coming, aliquid praesagire (e.g., alicujus rei eventum): anything does not come to the right person, in alienum iucidere: it comes to (a fight, lawsuit, etc.), res venit ad aliquid (e.g., ad arma atque pugnam, ad inimicitias, in contentionem): venitur ad aliquid (e.g., ad causam dicendam), or in aliquid (e.g., in jus, to a lawsuit): how comes it that...? qui factum est, ut, etc.? unde fit, ut, etc.? hence it comes that, etc., ita fit, ut. etc.; inde or ex aliquo evenit, ut, etc.; haec causa est, cur or quod. etc.; hinc est, quod, etc.; hinc fit, ut, etc.; hoc est, quare, etc.; ex quo fit, ut, etc.: and thus it came that, etc., quo factum est, ut, etc.; also (at the beginning of a sentence) by itaque [Vid: commentators, Nep., Arist., 1, 1): they returned whence they came, reversi sunt, unde profecti erant: when he was asked whence (or from what country) he came, cum interrogaretur, cujatem se esse diceret: where do you come from? unde venis? I don’t know how it comes, fit nescio quomodo: it has come to this, or to such a pass, etc., that., etc., res eo deducta est or rem eo adduximus, ut, etc. Many combinations of “to come,” with nouns, have been left out here, and are to be looked for under the respective articles; e.g., “to come into contact” [Vid. CONTACT, etc., etc.]. To come first, antevenire aliquem or aliquid: he came last, ultimus or postremus venit: to come quickly, advolare: adventare: to anybody’s assistance, propere subvenire: undique convolare (of a multitude flying from all parts): to come between, intervenire (unexpectedly): supervenire (of persons and things; e.g., of the night; Vid: Liv., 23, 18, both with dative): to come in proper time, in good time, etc. [Vid: TIME]: to be coming and going, commeare ad aliquem (to anybody), in locum (of place; Vid: Ruhnken, Ter. Heaut., 3, 1, 35; poetical only, meare).

To happen (came to pass), cedere: accidero (accidentally, mostly of unfortunate events; accidere sometimes with the addition of casu): contingere (especially of happy events): evenire (denoting the effect of a certain cause): usu venire (of facts which take place, and which one witnesses one’s self; not usu evenire; Vid: Gernhard, Cic., Cat. Maj., 3, 7; Bremi, Nap. Hannib., 12, 3).

To become, fieri; evadere [Vid: BECOME].

(α) (α) To COME ABOUT (= happen, fall out), evenire, fieri, etc.: how comes it that...? qui fit or factum est, ut, etc.

as adverb, of exhortation, age! age dum! age sis! age vero! In plur., agite! agite dum!