cum

From Vulgar Latin *quomo, from Latin quōmodo.


cum

He built a bus-cum-greenhouse that made a bold statement, but the plants in it didn't live very long.

But instead of being a salesperson cum barista cum waitress merely serving the wordsmiths, I'm one of them, reading her latest baby out loud.

He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.

1926-1950, George Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters: 1926-1950, University of California/Viking, published 1985, page 31:

One driver-cum-fireman-cum-fitter looks after the three locomotives, [...].

1944 May and June, “Notes and News: The Snailbeach District Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 183:

The banner shows a yellowed silhouette of a boy (possibly Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes) urinating on an EU flag. Sites such as this show the full power of the Internet as a propaganda medium cum travel service cum organizing tool. Oh, and nightlife directory.

2001 Nov/Dec, David Sachs, “LET THEM EAT BITS”, in American Spectator, volume 34, number 8, page 78:

Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.

2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times:

Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.

Learned borrowing from Latin cum (“with”).


cum

Jim descends into the murky tunnel; the faint odor of cum permeates the air.

1977, John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, New York: Dell, →ISBN, page 73:

Licking a friend's cum off another friend's belly.

1989 December 24, Read Weaver, “Queers For Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 9:

This week I learned that cum tastes like nickels.

2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Norm Macdonald:

(colloquial, often vulgar) Female ejaculatory discharge.

(colloquial, often vulgar) An ejaculation.

Variant of come, attested (in the basic sense "come, move from further to nearer, arrive") since Old English. The sexual sense of come is attested since the 1650s. In this sense and spelling, attested from 1970s.


cum

Despite claims to the contrary, a woman can cum from anal sex alone.

(slang, often vulgar) To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.

Some men cum as much as 10 milliliters.

I got no sensation down there, so I don't know when I'm hard, I don't know when I cum. My wife's gotta tell me.

1997 July 14, “Visits, Conjugal, and Otherwise”, in Oz, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau):

Sucking on pork ribs and summoning pornography / So that we can cum when we fuck / Our partners don’t know us / Our families are strangers

2019, “All Humans Too Late”, in The Book of Traps and Lessons, performed by Kae Tempest:

“Where'd he cum from?” the bowman inquired. “That's what we'd like ter know, yer see; where he cum from, and how he happen'd to cum,” responded the steersman. “But he's a jolly good feller, strong as a lion, […]”

1882, William Makepeace Thayer, From Log-Cabin to White House, page 162:

Eye dialect spelling of come (“move from further to nearer; arrive”).

en-verb

cum (third-person singular simple present cums, present participle cumming, simple past came or (nonstandard) cummed, past participle come or cum or (nonstandard) cummed)

cums (present singular third-person)
cumming (participle present)
came (past)
cummed (nonstandard past)
come (participle past)
cum (participle past)
cummed (nonstandard participle past)


cum

The density of cement is 1440 kg/cum.


cum

head

cum m (feminine cumha or cuma, masculine plural cums, feminine plural cumhas or cumas)

cumha (feminine)
cuma (feminine)
cums (masculine plural)
cumhas (feminine plural)
cumas (feminine plural)


cum

to compose (construct by mental labor; to think up)

to concoct (contrive something using skill or ingenuity)

to manufacture, fabricate (a story, excuse etc.)

cum (present analytic cumann, future analytic cumfaidh, verbal noun cumadh, past participle cumtha)

cumann (analytic present)
cumfaidh (analytic future)
cumadh (noun-from-verb)
cumtha (participle past)
cumadh (noun-from-verb)
cumtha (participle past)
cumaim (first-person indicative present singular)
cumann tú (indicative present second-person singular)
cumair (indicative present second-person singular)
cumann sé (indicative present singular third-person)
sí (indicative present singular third-person)
cumaimid (first-person indicative plural present)
cumann sibh (indicative plural present second-person)
cumann siad (indicative plural present third-person)
cumaid (indicative plural present third-person)
a chumann (indicative present relative)
a chumas (indicative present relative)
a gcumann (indicative present relative)
cumtar (autonomous indicative present)
chum mé (first-person indicative past singular)
chumas (first-person indicative past singular)
chum tú (indicative past second-person singular)
chumais (indicative past second-person singular)
chum sé (indicative past singular third-person)
sí (indicative past singular third-person)
chumamar (first-person indicative past plural)
chum muid (first-person indicative past plural)
chum sibh (indicative past plural second-person)
chumabhair (indicative past plural second-person)
chum siad (indicative past plural third-person)
chumadar (indicative past plural third-person)
a chum (indicative past relative)
ar chum (indicative past relative)
cumadh (autonomous indicative past)
chumainn (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
gcumainn‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
chumtá (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
gcumtá‡‡ (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
chumadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
gcumadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
chumaimis (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
chumadh muid (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
gcumaimis‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
gcumadh muid‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
chumadh sibh (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
gcumadh sibh‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
chumaidís (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
chumadh siad (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
gcumaidís‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
gcumadh siad‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
a chumadh (habitual indicative past relative)
a gcumadh (habitual indicative past relative)
chumtaí (autonomous habitual indicative past)
gcumtaí‡‡ (autonomous habitual indicative past)
cumfaidh mé (first-person future indicative singular)
cumfad (first-person future indicative singular)
cumfaidh tú (future indicative second-person singular)
cumfair (future indicative second-person singular)
cumfaidh sé (future indicative singular third-person)
sí (future indicative singular third-person)
cumfaimid (first-person future indicative plural)
cumfaidh muid (first-person future indicative plural)
cumfaidh sibh (future indicative plural second-person)
cumfaidh siad (future indicative plural third-person)
cumfaid (future indicative plural third-person)
a chumfaidh (future indicative relative)
a chumfas (future indicative relative)
a gcumfaidh (future indicative relative)
cumfar (autonomous future indicative)
chumfainn (conditional first-person singular)
gcumfainn‡‡ (conditional first-person singular)
chumfá (conditional second-person singular)
gcumfá‡‡ (conditional second-person singular)
chumfadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí (conditional singular third-person)
gcumfadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (conditional singular third-person)
chumfaimis (conditional first-person plural)
chumfadh muid (conditional first-person plural)
gcumfaimis‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
gcumfadh muid‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
chumfadh sibh (conditional plural second-person)
gcumfadh sibh‡‡ (conditional plural second-person)
chumfaidís (conditional plural third-person)
chumfadh siad (conditional plural third-person)
gcumfaidís‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
gcumfadh siad‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
a chumfadh (conditional relative)
a gcumfadh (conditional relative)
chumfaí (autonomous conditional)
gcumfaí‡‡ (autonomous conditional)
go gcuma mé (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go gcumad (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go gcuma tú (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go gcumair (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go gcuma sé (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (present singular subjunctive third-person)
go gcumaimid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go gcuma muid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go gcuma sibh (plural present second-person subjunctive)
go gcuma siad (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go gcumaid (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go gcumtar (autonomous present subjunctive)
dá gcumainn (first-person past singular subjunctive)
dá gcumtá (past second-person singular subjunctive)
dá gcumadh sé (past singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (past singular subjunctive third-person)
dá gcumaimis (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá gcumadh muid (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá gcumadh sibh (past plural second-person subjunctive)
dá gcumaidís (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá gcumadh siad (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá gcumtaí (autonomous past subjunctive)
cumaim (first-person imperative singular)
cum (imperative second-person singular)
cumadh sé (imperative singular third-person)
sí (imperative singular third-person)
cumaimis (first-person imperative plural)
cumaigí (imperative plural second-person)
cumaidh (imperative plural second-person)
cumaidís (imperative plural third-person)
cumtar (autonomous imperative)
cum
chum
gcum

From Old Irish cummaid (“fashions, shapes, composes, determines; makes, creates, devises”), from cummae (“act of cutting, carving, hacking, destroying, butchering; act of shaping, fashioning, composing; shape, form, appearance”) (compare modern cuma).


cum

Titus cum familiā habitat.

magnā cum laude

Mīlitēs cum prīmā lūce vēnērunt.

at (denoting a point in time with which an action coincides)

cum centēsimō efficere

→ English: cum

Aragonese: con

Aromanian: cu

Asturian: con, cun, co

Corsican: cù, cun

Dalmatian: con

Emilian: con

Friulian: cun, cu

Istriot: cun, cu'

Italian: con

Ladin: con, co, cun

Ligurian: con

Lombard: cond

Megleno-Romanian: cu

Mirandese: cun

Neapolitan: cu

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: con
Fala: con
Galician: con
Portuguese: com (see there for further descendants)

Piedmontese: cun

Romagnol: cun

Romanian: cu

Leonese: cun

Romansch: cun

Sardinian: chin, cun

Sicilian: cu

Spanish: con

Venetan: co

From Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *ga- (“co-”), Proto-Slavic *sъ(n) (“with”).
The ablative is from the PIE comitative-instrumental.

inh

cũ (alternative)
ꝯ (alternative)
kom (alternative Old-Latin)
com (alternative Old-Latin)
-cum (alternative)


cum

+obj

(causal) when, after [with imperfect subjunctive or pluperfect subjunctive]

(temporal) when, while [with present indicative or perfect indicative]

From Old Latin quom, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóm, accusative of *kʷos, *kʷís. Compare its feminine form quam (as in tum-tam).

quom (alternative Classical-Latin pre-Classical)
quum (alternative obsolete)
cũ (alternative)
ꝯ (alternative)
kom (alternative Old-Latin)
com (alternative Old-Latin)
-cum (alternative)


cum

From Old Irish con·gaib. Cognate with Irish coinnigh and Scottish Gaelic cum.


cum

From Middle Irish cummaid, a denominative verb from cumma, itself from Old Irish cummae (“shape, form, appearance”).


cum

Alternative form of ·cumai, third-person singular present subjunctive prototonic of con·icc

·cum (canonical)
·cum
·chum
·cum
·cumai (alternative)


cum

(Portugal, informal) contraction of com um (“with a”)

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cum m sg (masculine plural cuns, feminine singular cuma, feminine plural cumas)

cuns (masculine plural)
cuma (feminine singular)
cumas (feminine plural)

From contraction of preposition com (“with”) + masculine article um (“a”). Compare Galician cun.


cum

(Brazil, Internet slang) eye dialect spelling of com


cum

Cum ți-ar plăcea cafeaua?

Inherited from Late Latin quomo, from Latin quōmodo.


cum

(informal) Synonym of de cum (“as soon as”)


cum

From Middle English cumen, variant of comen, from Old English cuman. Cognate with English come and Yola coome.


cum

cum (past chum, future cumaidh, verbal noun cumail or cumadh, past participle cumta)

chum (past)
cumaidh (future)
cumail (noun-from-verb)
cumadh (noun-from-verb)
cumta (participle past)

From Old Irish con·gaib. Cognate with Irish coinnigh and Manx cum.


cum

cum (past chum, future cumaidh, verbal noun cumadh, past participle cumta)

chum (past)
cumaidh (future)
cumadh (noun-from-verb)
cumta (participle past)
cum
chum

From Old Irish cummaid (“to fashion, makes”), from cummae (“act of cutting, shaping”), verbal noun of con·ben.


cum

(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Cumeral.


cum

Fad didn'st thou cum t' ouz on zum other dey?

1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX:

[Why didn't you come to us on some other day?]