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bath
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: bäth, IPA(key): /b???/
- (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA(key): [b???]
- (South Asia) IPA(key): [b??t??]
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /b???/
- enPR: b?th, IPA(key): /bæ?/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [bæ??b????be??]
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): [ba??bæ?]
- Rhymes: -???, -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþ? (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.
Noun
bath (plural baths)
- A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
- A building or area where bathing occurs.
- 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture
- Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
- 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture
- (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.
- The act of bathing.
- A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
- a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
Usage notes
Sense 4. is usually to take (US) or have (UK, Aus) a bath. See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Synonyms
- bain (obsolete)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bath (third-person singular simple present baths, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed)
- (transitive) To wash a person or animal in a bath
Translations
Etymology 2
From Hebrew ????? (ba?).
Noun
bath (plural baths)
- (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
- 1769, Bible (KJV), Ezekiel, 45:10–11:
- Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
- 1769, Bible (KJV), Ezekiel, 45:10–11:
Meronyms
- (liquid volume): log (1?72 bath); cab, kab (1?18 bath); hin (1?6 bath); cor, kor, homer, chomer (10 baths)
Translations
References
- "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Anagrams
- Bhat, baht
French
Etymology
From English proper noun Bath where this paper was originally made.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bat/
Noun
bath m (plural baths)
- English high quality letter paper popular in the 19th century.
Adjective
bath (plural baths)
- Super, great, smashing; beautiful, fine, good, pleasant.
Further reading
- “bath” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English b? þ?.
Determiner
bath
- Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Conjunction
bath
- Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Etymology 2
From Old English bæþ, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþ?.
Alternative forms
- baþ, baþþ, baathe, bathth, beað, beð, batth, bæð
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
bath (plural bathes or baðen)
- A bath or pool, especially one by a hot spring; a body of liquid one immerses oneself in.
- A bath supposedly having curative or healing properties.
- A bath supposedly having spiritual properties.
- (alchemy) A bath used to produce distilled water.
- The process of having a bath; a bathing.
- A medicinal bathing; bathing as a treatment.
Derived terms
- Bathe
- bathen
- bathyng
Descendants
- English: bath
- Scots: bath
References
- “bath, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.
Welsh
Etymology 1
Probably from Proto-Celtic *batto-; according to the GPC, possibly related to Latin battuo (“I fight, pound, beat (up)”), though the semantics are far from certain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba??/
Noun
bath m (plural bathau)
- (obsolete) kind, sort
- Synonyms: math, siort, teip
- stamp, coin
Derived terms
- bathdy (“mint”)
- bathol (“coined, minted”)
- bathu (“to mint”)
Etymology 2
Noun
bath m (plural baths)
- Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath, bath tub”)
Etymology 3
Noun
bath m (plural baths)
- Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath (unit of liquid volume)”)
Mutation
References
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “bath”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Yola
Alternative forms
- bat
Etymology
From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin.
Noun
bath (plural bathès)
- stick
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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barth
English
Etymology
Etymology unknown.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)?
Noun
barth (plural barths)
- (Britain, dialect) A place of shelter for cattle.
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Anagrams
- brath
Welsh
Noun
barth
- Soft mutation of parth.
Mutation
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