path

Multiple Entries:
  path    -path  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
path/pɑːθ/

▶noun (pl. paths)

• 1 a way or track laid down for walking or made by continual treading.

• 2 the direction in which a person or thing moves.

• 3 a course of action.

– derivatives
pathless adjective.

– origin OE pæth, of W. Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-path/paθ/

▶combining form

• 1 denoting a practitioner of curative treatment: homeopath.

• 2 denoting a person who suffers from a disease: psychopath.

– origin back-form. from -pathy, or from Gk -pathēs ‘-sufferer’.