come from

English

Verb

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

1. (transitive)To have as one'sbirthplaceornationality.

   Most tourists in Mallorcacome fromEngland. My girlfriendcomes fromSweden.

   • 1993December 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.

2. (transitive)To bederivedfrom.
   • 2013July-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 fromthe 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.

3. (transitive,slightlyinformal)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.

Translations

have as one's birthplace or nationality

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Lai tự／Lai tự(zh)(láizì)

• Estonian:pärit olema
• Finnish:tulla(fi)(+ elative or ablative),olla(fi)(+ elative or ablative)
• Portuguese:virde,serde
• Vietnamese:đếntừ,quêở,ở(vi)(colloquial)

be derived from

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Nguyên tự(zh)(yuánzì)

• Estonian:pärit olema
• Finnish:tulla(fi)(+ elative or ablative),polveutua(fi)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari:шочаш(šočaš)

• Portuguese:virde
• Vietnamese:đếntừ

derive one's opinions from

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:please add this translation if you can

• Finnish:perustaanäkemyksensä(not used for expressions like "... where one is coming from")
• Portuguese:veroladode,entender(pt)(for expressions like "...where one is coming from")

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Translations to be checked

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