Etymology

bathhouse

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Today it means: A building with baths for communal use. Full definition →

Middle English bathhous ← Old English bæþhūs
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  1. Old English · inherited frombæþhūs“bathhouse”
  2. Middle English · inherited frombathhous
  3. English todaybathhouse

Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Bokmål badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Nynorsk badehus (“bathhouse”), Swedish badhus (“bathhouse”).

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