Thereto

//ˌðɛɚˈtuː// adv

adv ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    To that. formal, not-comparable

    "'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.[']"

  2. 2
    To it. archaic, not-comparable, poetic

    "He strung the angelot; / Made rhymes thereto; […]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    to that wordnet

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itthatthereuntothithertothithertoto it

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"You see a word like "thereto" or "thereof" in English and you're probably reading a legal document. In other Germanic languages, they're everyday words."

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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