bath

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


bath

bathys (plural)
bath (unmutated)
vath (soft)
path
fath (mixed)
vath (after-th mutation-mixed)


bath

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

Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.

1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture:

A building or area where bathing occurs.

The master bath has two sinks.

(real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.

a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air

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.

1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:

(by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

bano

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
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.

etymon

barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)


bath

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.

1990, Mukti Jain Campion, The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability., →ISBN, page 41:

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.

2006, Sue Dallas, Diana North, Joanne Angus, Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat, →ISBN, page 91:

If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week.

2007, Robin Barker, Baby Love, →ISBN, page 179:

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

“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.”

1815, anonymous author, The Observant Pedestrian Mounted, volume 3:

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.

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:

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.

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:

Parents would bath after all the children had gone to bed or older children sent into the front room.

2017 February 9, “Very Early Spring”, in Jean A. Stockdale, My Spring: Royal Times and Ordinary Lives, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:

(intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.

en-verb

bath (third-person singular simple present baths, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed)

baths (present singular third-person)
bathing (participle present)
bathed (participle past)
bathed (past)


bath

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.

(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).


bath

English high quality letter paper popular in the 19th century

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


bath

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


bath

A bath (body of liquid for bathing):
A medicinal or curative bath.

A bath (body of liquid for bathing):
A spiritually cleansing bath.

(alchemy, rare) A bath for distilling water.

A bath (body of liquid for bathing):
A bath for distilling water.

English: bath

Scots: bath

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
Inherited from Old English bæþ, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.


bath

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


bath

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.


bath

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


bath

Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath (unit of liquid volume)”)


bath

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