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adanto

adanta

masc nom sg of adanta (pp); masc nom sg of adanta (adj)

1. untamed; untrained; unrestrained; wild
2. without teeth; toothless

Built from

• a- — prefix · not, without
  Negation prefix. Removes the quality denoted by the following root; no separate form in the sentence.
• dant- — root · tooth; tamed
  From √dam 'to tame, subdue'. The noun danta means tooth; the past participle sense 'tamed' comes from the verbal root. Cognate with English tame, Latin domāre.
• -a — ending · masculine nominative singular
  Masculine singular nominative ending, marking the word as the subject of a sentence or a predicate nominative in masculine singular form.

Etymology. a- (not) + danta (tooth, tamed); √dantayati (to tame) from √dam (to tame, subdue). The adjective plays on two senses: literally 'without teeth' and metaphorically 'not subdued' (as a horse or ox is tamed). Cognate with English tame, Latin domāre (to tame), Greek damazein (to subdue).

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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