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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishpath,peth, fromOld Englishpæþ(“path, track”), fromProto-West Germanic*paþ, fromProto-Germanic*paþaz(“path”). The Proto-Germanic term is possibly borrowed fromIranian, fromProto-Iranian*pántaHh, fromProto-Indo-Iranian*pántaHs, fromProto-Indo-European*póntoh₁s, from the root*pent-(“to pass”), however this is disputed. Cognate withWest Frisianpaad,Dutchpad,GermanPfad. Indo-Iranian cognates could beAvestan𐬞𐬀𐬧‎𐬙𐬃(paṇ‎tā̊,“way”),Old Persian𐎱𐎰(p-θ/⁠paθi⁠/)),Sanskritपन्था(panthā). See alsoEnglishfind).Doublet ofpanth.

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path (pluralpaths)

  2. Atrail for the use of, or worn by,pedestrians.
    • a.1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Epithalamium ofHelen andMenelaus. From the 18th Idyllium ofTheocritus.”, inThe Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published1760,→OCLC,page412:
      Yet ere to to-morrow's ſun ſhall ſhew his head, / The dewypaths of meadows we will tread, / For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy head.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort ofpath that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
  4. Acourse taken.
    thepath of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm
  5. Ametaphorical course or route;progress.
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson],In Memoriam, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC, Canto XXXIX,page61:
      ⁠But thou and I have shaken hands,
      ⁠Till growing winters lay me low;
      ⁠Mypaths are in the fields I know,
      And thine in undiscover’d lands.
    • 2002, Priscilla K. Shontz, Steven J. Oberg,Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science, page21:
      As I explored the possibility of a library sciencepath, having previously been employed in libraries during my school career and afterwards, I decided that I needed to actually experience work in a library setting full time again[…]
  6. Amethod ordirection of proceeding.
  7. (paganism) APagan tradition, for examplewitchcraft,Wicca,druidism,Heathenry.
  9. (computing) Ahuman-readablespecification for a location within ahierarchical ortree-like structure, such as afile system or as part of aURL.
    Hyponym:filepath
    Use the networkpath\\Marketing\Files to find the documents you need.
  11. (graph theory) Asequence ofvertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is aclosed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
  12. (topology) Acontinuous mapf{\displaystyle f} from theunit intervalI=[0,1]{\displaystyle I=[0,1]} to atopological spaceX{\displaystyle X}.
  13. (rail transport) Aslot available for allocation to arailwaytrain over a givenroute in between other trains.
    • 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, inModern Railways, page232:
      "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await apath through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.
    • 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival: December 2019 changes”, inModern Railways, page78:
      ... while the planned hourly fast 'Connect' service from Middlesbrough to Newcastle has been postponed indefinitely due to problems in findingpaths for it on the East Coast main line.
    • 2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment[sic]”, inRail, page65:
      Echoing McNaughton's comments in 2009, it adds: "TheWCML has exhausted its available trainpaths and no extra services could be run without further significant investment to enhance current infrastructure or build a new line.
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Hypernyms ofpath (noun)
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Translations
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a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians
a course taken
a metaphorical course
a method or direction of proceeding
computing: a specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure
graph theory: a sequence of vertices from one vertex to another
topology: a continuous map
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Verb

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path (third-person singular simple presentpaths,present participlepathing,simple past and past participlepathed)

  1. (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
  2. (computing, intransitive) Tonavigate through afile systemdirectorytree (to a desired file or folder).
    Next, you need topath to the location of the executable and run it from there.

Etymology 2

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Shortening.

Noun

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path (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, abbreviation)Pathology.

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Further reading

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  • Anatoly Liberman (2015 November 4) “The Oxford Etymologist”, inOUPblog‎[1], Oxford University Press, archived fromthe original on23 November 2024,Pathfinders

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromOld Englishpæþ, fromProto-West Germanic*paþ, fromProto-Germanic*paþaz, from anIranian language, fromProto-Iranian*pántaHh, fromProto-Indo-Iranian*pántaHs.

The spellingspaath andpathe andScotspaith prove that a pronunciation of this word with/aː/ existed; it presumably originated fromopen-syllable lengthening in inflected forms.

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Noun

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path (pluralpathes)

  1. An informal orunpavedpath ortrail; a track.
  2. Achoice or way of living; adoctrine.
  3. (rare, Late Middle English) Acourse orroute.
  4. (rare, Late Middle English) Avessel orvein.
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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path

  1. Alternative form ofpathen
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