bath

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bäth, IPA^(key): /bɑːθ/
  • (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): [bɑːθ]
  • (North India) IPA^(key): [bɑːt̪ʰ]
  • (South India) IPA^(key): [bɑːt̪]
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /bɐːθ/
• enPR: băth, IPA^(key): /bæθ/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [bæθ~bɛəθ~beəθ]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [baθ~bäθ]
• Rhymes: -ɑːθ, -æθ
• Homophone: barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.

Noun

bath (plural baths)

2. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
3. A building or area where bathing occurs.
4. (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.

6. The act of bathing.
7. The body of liquid one bathes in.
8. (by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

Usage notes

• Sense 4 is usually to take a bath (US) or to have have a bath (UK, General Australian). 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, Commonwealth) To wash a person or animal in a bath.
2. (intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hebrew בַּת (baṯ).

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

• BTHA, Bhat, baht

Cornish

Etymology 1

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Celtic *batto-. Cognate with Welsh bath.

Noun

bath m (plural bathow)

1. coin

Derived terms

• batha (“to mint”)
• bathva (“mint (building)”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bath.

Noun

bath m (plural bathys)

1. bath

Derived terms

• badhya (“to bathe”)

Mutation

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. (dated) super, great, smashing; beautiful, fine, good, pleasant

Further reading

• “bath”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English bæþ, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.

Alternative forms

• baathe, bathth, batth, baþ
• baþþ, bæð, beað, beð (Early Middle English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baθ/
• Rhymes: -aθ

Noun

bath (plural bathes or (early) baðen)

1. A bath (body of liquid for bathing):
   1. A medicinal or curative bath.
   2. A spiritually cleansing bath.
   3. (alchemy, rare) A bath for distilling water.
2. A bathhouse; a place for bathing.
3. A bathing (process of having a bath)

Related terms

• Bathe
• bathen
• bathynge
• bethen

Descendants

• English: bath
• Scots: bath

References

• “bath, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.

Etymology 2

Determiner

bath

1. (Northern) Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Pronoun

bath

1. (Northern) Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Conjunction

bath

1. (Northern) Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

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): /baːθ/
• Rhymes: -aːθ

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, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat/

Noun

bath (plural bathès)

1. bat, stick

Derived terms

• cambaute

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25