Middle English Dictionary Entry
bath(us n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bath(us n. Aso batus. |
| Etymology | L batus, from Heb. bath. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A Hebrew unit of (liquid) measure.
Associated quotations
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)3 Kings 7.38 : He made ten waischyng vessels of bras; o waischyng vessel took fourti bathus and it was of foure cubitis.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)3 Kings 7.26 : The see took twei thousynde bathus, thre thousynde metretis [WB(1): mesuris neeȝ of a potel].
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1374/15 : Batus is in fletynge þinges, as cours and ephi in druye þinges.
- ?a1425 WBible(2) Gloss.3 Kings (Cld E.2)7.26 : This word 'iij thousynde metretis', is not in Ebrew..but..was first a glos to schewe what is signefied bi bathus, and aftirward..was set in the text.
- c1450 WBible(2) Gloss.3 Kings (Bod 277)7.26 : Bathus is a mesure of thre buschelis, and metreta conteineth two quartis and an halff.
Note: Stub entry. = OD bath n.(3).
Note: Latinate. All examples may be construed as Latin.