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-pathsuff.1. A practitioner of a specified kind of medical treatment: naturopath.2. One affected by a specified kind of disorder: sociopath.
[Back-formation from -pathy.]-path n combining form 1. (Pathology) denoting a person suffering from a specified disease or disorder: neuropath. 2. (Medicine) denoting a practitioner of a particular method of treatment: osteopath. [back formation from -pathy]path (pæθ, pɑθ)
n., pl. paths (patz, pätz, paths, päths). 1. a way beaten or trodden by the feet of persons or animals. 2. a narrow walk or way: a bicycle path. 3. a route or course along which something moves: the path of a hurricane. 4. a course of action, conduct, or procedure: the path of righteousness. 5. (in some computer operating systems) a. a listing of the route through directories and subdirectories that locates and thereby names a specific file or program on a disk drive. b. the currently active list of all such routes that tells the operating system where to find programs, enabling a user to run them from other directories. [before 900; Middle English; Old English pæth; c. Old Frisian path, pad, Old High German phad (German Pfad)] -path a combining form occurring in personal nouns corresponding to abstract nouns ending in -pathy, with the general sense “one practicing such a treatment” (osteopath) or “one suffering from such an ailment” (psychopath). path. 1. pathological. 2. pathology. EncyclopediaSeepath-path
-path [Gr. -pathēs, fr. paschein, to feel] Suffix meaning one affected by a disease, e.g., sociopath; or one practicing a method of treatment, e.g., osteopath |