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See also: Bath, Ba'th, bàth, baþ, and bað

English

A western-style bath

Pronunciation

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)

  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.
    The master bath has two sinks.
  4. The act of bathing.
  5. The body of liquid one bathes in.
  6. (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

Sense 4 is usually to take (US) or have (UK, Aus) a bath. See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
body of liquid one bathes in

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.
    • 1990, Mukti Jain Campion, The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability.‎, →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.
    • 2006, Sue Dallas, Diana North, Joanne Angus, Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat‎, →ISBN, page 91:
      For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose.
    • 2007, Robin Barker, Baby Love‎, →ISBN, page 179:
      If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week.
  2. (intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.
    • 1912, James Ward, quotee, “Report on the Royal Commission on Mines”, in Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand‎, 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)‎, 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.
    • 2017 February 9, “Very Early Spring”, in Jean A. Stockdale, My Spring: Royal Times and Ordinary Lives‎, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:
      Parents would bath after all the children had gone to bed or older children sent into the front room.
Translations
To bathe — see bathe

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.
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French

Etymology

From English proper noun Bath where this paper was originally made.

Pronunciation

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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
Descendants
  • English: bath
  • Scots: bath
References

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

Noun

bath m (plural bathau)

  1. (obsolete) kind, sort
    Synonyms: math, siort, teip
  2. stamp, coin
Derived terms

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

Welsh mutation
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

  1. ^ 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

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

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Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

bath (plural bathès)

  1. bat, stick

Derived terms

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
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