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πάτος [α^] (A), ὁ,
A.trodden or beaten way, path, “κιόντες ἐκ πάτου ἐς σκοπιήν” Il.20.137 ; “πάτον ἀνθρώπων ἀλεείνων” 6.202 ; “οὐ μὲν γὰρ πάτος ἀνθρώπων ἀπερύκει” Od.9.119 ; “ὅ τις πάτου ἔκτοθεν ἦεν ἀνθρώπων” A.R. 3.1201 : metaph., ἔξω πάτου ὀνόματα out-of-the-way words, Luc.Hist. Conscr.44.
2. floor, “βαλανείου” PFlor.384.27 (pl., V A. D.).
3. treading, prob. cj. in Thphr.HP6.6.10.
II. dirt, dung, Nic.Al. 535, Th.933 ; scrapings of oil, etc., Gal.12.116,283.
III. πύρινος π. prob. wheat-field, PSI8.883.8 (ii A.D.) : the sense food, Sch.Ar. Pl.1185, invented to explain ἀπόπατος. (Cf. Skt. pánthās, Slav. pąt[icaron] 'path', Lat. pons 'causeway' ; v. πόντος.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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