bath – English noun declension

English noun forms of bath

Noun: bath
Singularbath
Pluralbaths

Sample Sentences

  • Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence. [1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture:]
  • The master bath has two sinks.
  • Do you prefer baths or showers?
  • Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:]
  • 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:]
  • While the yarn is soaking in its water and vinegar bath, I prepare a selection of dyes for my preferred colorway. [2026, Katherine Augustine, “Dyeing in the Baking Aisle”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 35:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
3. Proto-Germanic *baþą
4. Proto-West Germanic *baþ
5. Old English bæþ
6. Middle English bath
7. English bath
8. 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.
9. Cognate with Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish bad (“bath”), Faroese and Icelandic bað (“bath”), German Bad (“bath”). See: Middle English Nouns 'bath', Old English Nouns 'bæþ', Swedish Nouns 'bad', Icelandic Nouns 'bað', German Nouns 'Bad'.

Verbs referencing "bath"

Danish Nouns bad.