thereto
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of thereto
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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(formal, not-comparable)To that.
“'There,' she went on, 'it [a scarab] must be one like it, and yet never did I see one like it, for thereto hung a history, and he who wore it prized it much.[']”
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adv
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(formal, not-comparable)To that.
“'There,' she went on, 'it [a scarab] must be one like it, and yet never did I see one like it, for thereto hung a history, and he who wore it prized it much.[']”
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(archaic, not-comparable, poetic)To it.
“He strung the angelot; / Made rhymes thereto; […]”
“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”
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Etymology
From Middle English therto, from Old English þǣrtō (“thereto”), equivalent to there + to. Cognate with Scots tharto, thereto (“thereto”), Saterland Frisian deertou (“thereto”), West Frisian dêrta (“thereto”), Dutch daartoe (“thereto; for that”), German Low German daarto (“to that; for that; thereto”), German dazu (“to that; for that; thereto”).
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