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path
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”) (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), Ancient Greek ????? (paté?) / ????? (pátos), from Iranian (compare Avestan ????????????????????? (panta, “way”), ????????????????? (pa?a, genitive), Old Persian [script needed] (pathi-)), from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs (compare Sanskrit ????? (páthin)), from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh?s, from *pent- (“path”) (compare English find). Doublet of panth.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [p????]
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): [p?ä??], [p????]
- IPA(key): /pæ?/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [p?æ?], [p????], [p?e??]
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): [p?a?], [p?æ?]
- Rhymes: -???, -æ?
Noun
path (plural paths)
- A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- A course taken.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
- A metaphorical course.
- A method or direction of proceeding.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
- (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
- (topology) A continuous map from the unit interval to a topological space .
- (rail transport) A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
Synonyms
- (1): track, trail; see also Thesaurus:way
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
path (third-person singular simple present paths, present participle pathing, simple past and past participle pathed)
- (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
- 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles
- pathing young Henry's unadvised ways
- 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles
Etymology 2
Shortening.
Noun
path (uncountable)
- (medicine, abbreviation) Pathology.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2005]
- “path”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- Ptah, phat
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English pæþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz, from an Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs.
Alternative forms
- paþ, peth, paþþe, paaþ, pathe, paththe, pað, paath
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?/, /pa??/, /p??/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
path (plural pathes)
- An informal or unpaved path or trail; a track.
- A choice or way of living; a doctrine.
- (rare, Late Middle English) A course or route.
- (rare, Late Middle English) A vessel or vein.
Related terms
- pathen
- pathyng
Descendants
- English: path
- Scots: paith
References
- “p??th, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-08.
Etymology 2
From path (noun).
Verb
path
- Alternative form of pathen
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chance
English
Alternative forms
- chaunce (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?æns/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [t????ns], [t??e?ns]
- (Northern England, General Australian, Ireland) IPA(key): [t??æns], [t??ans]
- IPA(key): /t???ns/
- (Received Pronunciation, Cockney) IPA(key): [t????ns]
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): [t????ns]
- Rhymes: -??ns, -æns
Etymology 1
From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French chance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.
Noun
chance (countable and uncountable, plural chances)
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
Synonyms
- (random occurrence): fortune, hap; see also Thesaurus:luck
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
chance (not comparable)
- Happening by chance, casual.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. VI, The Shoe Maker (Heron Book Centennial Edition)
- No crowd was about the door; no people were discernible at any of the many windows; not even a chance passer-by was in the street. An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. VI, The Shoe Maker (Heron Book Centennial Edition)
Translations
Adverb
chance (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.
Etymology 2
From Middle English chancen, chauncen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
chance (third-person singular simple present chances, present participle chancing, simple past and past participle chanced)
- (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
- if a bird's nest chance to be before thee
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
- Once […] it chanced that Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely, a Prelate rather troublesome to our Abbot, made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
- Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."
- (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
- To try or risk.
- Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
- 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes
- He does chance it in stocks, but he's always played on the square, if you call stocks gambling.
- To discover something by chance.
- (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
Synonyms
- (to happen) come to pass, occur, transpire; See also Thesaurus:happen
- (to happen to)
- (to try) test
- (to discover something) come across, come on, come upon, encounter, stumble upon
- (to cheat someone) deceive, fool, trick; See also Thesaurus:deceive
Derived terms
- bechance
- chance on
- chance one's arm
- chance upon
Translations
References
- chance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chance”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French chance, from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cad? (“I fall, I die”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [????s?]
Noun
chance c (singular definite chancen, plural indefinite chancer)
- A chance
Antonyms
- risiko
French
Etymology
From Old French chance, cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cad?ns, from cad? (“I fall, I die”). Doublet of cadence, borrowed from Italian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
chance f (plural chances)
- chance
- luck
Antonyms
- adversité
- guigne (familiar)
- malchance
- malheur
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Dutch: kans
- ? Dutch: sjans
- ? German: Chance
- ? Persian: ????? (šâns)
- ? Polish: szansa
- ? Romanian: ?ans?
- ? Turkish: ?ans
Related terms
- choir
Further reading
- “chance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Alternative forms
- scians
Etymology
Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadenza.
Noun
chance f (invariable)
- chance (possibility of a certain outcome)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cad?ns, from cad? (“I fall, I die”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?an.ts?/
Noun
chance f (oblique plural chances, nominative singular chance, nominative plural chances)
- chance; fate
- (rare) a throw of a die
Related terms
- cheoir
Descendants
- ? English: chance
- Japanese: ???? (chansu) (borrowed)
- French: chance
- ? Danish: chance
- ? Italian: chance
- ? Portuguese: chance
- ? Romanian: ?ans?
- ? Spanish: chance
- ? Turkish: ?ans
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cheance, supplement)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (chance)
- chance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadência.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /????.s?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /????.si/, [????.s??]
Noun
chance f (plural chances)
- probability
- chance, opportunity
- Synonym: oportunidade
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French chance or, in Mexico, from English chance. Doublet of cadencia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /?t??an?e/, [?t??ãn?.?e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /?t??anse/, [?t??ãn.se]
Noun
chance m or f (plural chances)
- chance
Conjunction
chance
- (Mexico) maybe, perchance, perhaps or possibly
- Synonyms: a lo mejor, quizá, quizás, tal vez
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