Path Definition

păth, päth

paths

noun

paths

A track or way worn by footsteps; trail.

Webster's New World

A road, way, or track made for a particular purpose.

A bicycle path.

American Heritage

A walk or way for the use of people on foot, as in a park or garden.

Webster's New World

The route or course along which something travels or moves.

The path of a hurricane.

American Heritage

A line of movement; course taken.

The path of the meteor.

Webster's New World

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suffix

A practitioner of a specified kind of medical treatment.

Naturopath.

American Heritage

One affected by a specified kind of disorder.

Sociopath.

American Heritage

abbreviation

Pathological.

Webster's New World

Pathology.

Webster's New World

verb

To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Path

Singular:

path

Plural:

paths

From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track"), from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path") (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), from Scythian (compare Avestan [script?] (panta), gen. [script?] (paθa, “way"), Old Persian [script?] (pathi-)), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (compare English find). More at find.

From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English pæth pent- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Back-formation from –pathy

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition