bath
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- 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/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːθ, -æθ
- Homophone: barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)
Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]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.
- (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.
- The master bath has two sinks.
- The act of bathing.
- The body of liquid one bathes in.
- (by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
- a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
- 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:
- He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
Usage notes
[edit]Sense 4 is usually to take (US) or have (UK, Aus) a bath. See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Synonyms
[edit]- bain (obsolete)
Derived terms
[edit]- aerotone bath
- afterbath
- air bath
- air-bath
- bath bomb
- bath book
- bath-brush
- bath chair
- Bath County
- bath cube
- bath dodger
- bathe
- bathful
- bath-house
- bathinette
- bathkeeper
- bath kimono
- bathless
- bathlike
- bath man
- bath-man
- bathman
- bath mat
- bath mitzvah
- bath pearl
- bathplug
- bathrobe
- bath room
- bathroom
- bath salt
- bath salts
- bath scraper
- bath sheet
- bath sponge
- bathtime
- bath time
- bath towel
- bathtub
- bath tub
- bathward
- bathwards
- bathware
- bath water
- bathwater
- bathwear
- bed bath
- bed-bath
- bird bath, birdbath
- blanket bath
- bloodbath
- blood bath
- bubble bath
- catbath
- compressed-air bath
- corner bath
- cryobath
- draw a bath
- dust bath
- dyebath
- early bath
- electric bath
- eyebath
- firebath
- fire-bath
- foam bath
- footbath
- foot bath
- foot-bath
- half bath (US)
- have a bath
- hip bath
- hydrobath
- ice bath
- intrabath
- Matlock Bath
- monobath
- moonbath
- mud bath
- myobath
- Nauheim bath
- negative bath
- oilbath
- plunge bath
- postbath
- prebath
- Roman bath
- run a bath
- Russian bath
- sand bath
- showerbath
- shower bath
- silver bath
- sitz bath
- sound bath
- spa bath
- spin bath
- spit bath
- sponge bath
- starbath
- steam bath
- sulfur bath
- sulphur bath
- sun-bath
- sunbath
- sun bath
- swan's bath
- swimming bath
- take a bath
- throw out the baby with the bath water
- throw the baby out with the bath water
- tin bath
- tongue bath
- tongue-bath
- trap-bath split
- Turkish bath
- ultrasonic bath
- vapour bath
- water bath
- water-bath
- whore bath
- whore's bath
Translations
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Verb
[edit]bath (third-person singular simple present baths, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed)
- (transitive, Commonwealth) To wash a person or animal in a bath.
- 1990, Mukti Jain Campion, The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability.[1], →ISBN, page 41:
- Somewhere to bath the baby: don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to bath the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor.
- (intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.
- 1815, anonymous author, The Observant Pedestrian Mounted[4], volume 3:
- “Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.”
- 1912, James Ward, quotee, “Report on the Royal Commission on Mines”, in Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand[5], Wellington, page 141:
- A man's home may be handy to the mine, in which case he would not need to lose the bath, but if he lived any distance away he would bath at the mine.
- 2007, “Doctors, Regeneration, and the Revolutionary Crucible, 1789-1804”, in Sean M. Quinlan, The Great Nation in Decline (The History of Medicine in Context)[6], Aldershot: Ashgate, →ISBN, page 140:
- In a flight of fancy, Millot even wanted to create public bath houses alongside the Seine, so young children could bath in the river’s healthful waters.
Translations
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bath (plural baths)
Meronyms
[edit]- (liquid volume): log (1⁄72 bath); cab, kab (1⁄18 bath); hin (1⁄6 bath); cor, kor, homer, chomer (10 baths)
Translations
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References
[edit]- "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English proper noun Bath where this paper was originally made.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bath m (plural baths)
Adjective
[edit]bath (plural baths)
Further reading
[edit]- “bath”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old English bæþ, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bath (plural bathes or (early) baðen)
- A bath (body of liquid for bathing):
- A bathhouse; a place for bathing.
- A bathing (process of having a bath)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “bath, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.
Etymology 2
[edit]Determiner
[edit]bath
- (Northern) Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Pronoun
[edit]bath
- (Northern) Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Conjunction
[edit]bath
- (Northern) Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Welsh
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bath m (plural bathau)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bath m (plural baths)
- Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath, bath tub”)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]bath m (plural baths)
- Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath (unit of liquid volume)”)
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bath | fath | math | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bat, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bath (plural bathès)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- 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
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