different between bath vs toilet

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)

1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
2. 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.

3. (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.

4. The act of bathing.
5. 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)

1. (transitive) To wash a person or animal in a bath

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hebrew ????? (ba?).

Noun

bath (plural baths)

1. (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.

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From English proper noun Bath where this paper was originally made.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)

1. English high quality letter paper popular in the 19th century.

Adjective

bath (plural baths)

1. 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

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Conjunction

bath

1. 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)

1. A bath or pool, especially one by a hot spring; a body of liquid one immerses oneself in.
   1. A bath supposedly having curative or healing properties.
   2. A bath supposedly having spiritual properties.
   3. (alchemy) A bath used to produce distilled water.
2. The process of having a bath; a bathing.
3. 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)

1. (obsolete) kind, sort

   Synonyms: math, siort, teip

2. stamp, coin

Derived terms

• bathdy (“mint”)
• bathol (“coined, minted”)
• bathu (“to mint”)

Etymology 2

Noun

bath m (plural baths)

1. Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath, bath tub”)

Etymology 3

Noun

bath m (plural baths)

1. 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)

1. 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

English

Alternative forms

• toilette (certain senses only)

Etymology

From Middle French toilette (“small cloth”), diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??.l?t/, /?t??.l?t/
• Rhymes: -??l?t

Noun

toilet (plural toilets)

1. (obsolete) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room. [17th–19th c.]
2. (obsolete) The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto I, lines 121-126:

     And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d,

     Each silver vase in mystic order laid.

3. (now historical or archaic) Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair. [from 17th c.]
   • 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford 2009, p. 118:

     Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […] .

   • 1913, Rabindranath Tagore, (“Come as you are...”), Poetry Foundation 1913, p. 85:

     Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet.

   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 111:

     Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets, smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.
4. (now rare, archaic) One's style of dressing: dress, outfit. [from 18th c.]
   • 1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge":

     "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."

5. (archaic) A dressing room. [from 19th c.]
6. (Britain) A room or enclosed area containing a toilet: a bathroom or water closet. [from 19th c.]
   • 2002, Digby Tantam, Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework, p. 122:

     He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end.

   • 2014, C.S. Walter, Abandoned Bridges, pp. 105 f.:

     He wet his thumb with saliva pressing on the tongue, ran it up and down faster over the letter 'I' of 'TOILET', the 'LADIES TOILET' was transformed into 'LADIES TO LET' in no time.

7. (New Zealand) A small secondary lavatory having a toilet and sink but no bathtub or shower.
8. (obsolete) A chamber pot.
10. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly those with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which use water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system. [from 19th c.]

    My toilet backed up. Now the bathroom's flooded.

11. (figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place. [from 20th c.]
    • 1982, The Mosquito Coast:

      Look around you. It's a toilet.

Usage notes

In present use, toilet refers most directly to fixtures for containing or removing human waste. As such, although toilet was originally a euphemism itself, its use to describe the place where the toilets are located (e.g., "Where is the toilet?") is now considered somewhat indiscreet; instead, it is more common to employ other euphemisms such as bathroom, restroom, or WC.

Until the late 19th century, toilet referred solely to personal grooming, including bathing and hair care. This still appears in toiletries and in various set phrases, such as toilet water and toilet bag. This use is sometimes understood as a new borrowing from French, despite being the older sense of the English word. Medical jargon also includes some set phrases such as “pulmonary toilet” and “toilet of the mouth”.

Synonyms

• (room for urination and defecation): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (NZ, small room for urination and defecation): half bath, half bathroom (US); cloakroom (UK)
• (pot used for urination and defecation): Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (fixture for urination and defecation): See Thesaurus:toilet
• (in a nautical context): See head (item 4.1.4)

Hyponyms

• (fixture for urination and defecation): See Thesaurus:toilet

Derived terms

Descendants

• Japanese: ?????, ???

Translations

Verb

toilet (third-person singular simple present toilets, present participle toileting, simple past and past participle toileted)

1. (dated) To dress and groom oneself.
2. To use the toilet.
3. To assist another (a child, etc.) in using the toilet.

References

Anagrams

• Lottie, litote

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French toilette (“small cloth”) diminutive of toile (“cloth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toal?t/, [t?oa?l?d?] or IPA^(key): /t?il?t/, [t??i?l?d?]

Noun

toilet n (singular definite toilettet, plural indefinite toiletter)

1. toilet (room containing lavatory); men's room, ladies' room
2. toilet (lavatory)

Inflection

Synonyms

• wc

Derived terms

Related terms

• grande toilette
• gøre toilette
• toilette

Further reading

• toilet on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French toilette (“small cloth”), from Middle French toilette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a??l?t/
• Hyphenation: toi?let
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

toilet n (plural toiletten, diminutive toiletje n)

1. toilet (room containing lavatory); men's room, ladies' room

   Synonyms: privaat, wc

2. toilet (lavatory)

   Synonym: wc

3. personal grooming

Derived terms

• toiletbril
• toilethok
• toiletjuffrouw
• toiletpapier
• toilettas

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: toilet

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch toilet, from French toilette (“small cloth”) diminutive of toile (“cloth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?toi?.l?t?/
• Hyphenation: toilèt

Noun

toilèt (first-person possessive toiletku, second-person possessive toiletmu, third-person possessive toiletnya)

1. toilet (personal grooming).
2. toilet, room used for urination and defecation.
3. toilet, fixture used for urination and defecation.

   Synonyms: jamban, kakus, peturasan, tandas, WC

Further reading

• “toilet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English toilet.

Noun

toilet

1. toilet