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adhivāseti

pr 3rd sg of adhivāseti (verb)

1. agrees; consents (to); accepts; lit. causes to live through
2. endures; tolerates; weathers; lit. causes to live through
3. waits for; lit. causes to live through

Built from

• adhi — prefix · on top of, above
  Presiding over or bearing the weight of something; the concrete spatial sense of 'on top of' carries into the abstract meaning of bearing or enduring.
• vāseti — stem · causes to dwell
  Causative form of vasati (to dwell, remain, stay). The stem vāseti extends the root √vas with the causative suffix -eti.

Etymology. adhi (on top of, presiding over) + vāseti (causative of vasati, to dwell/remain). The concrete sense is 'causes to dwell/remain on top of' → 'bears up under', hence 'endures' and 'assents to'; related to Latin vastus (but that is a different root) and English wait (Old English wǽtan, obsolete), though the Pali path here is clearer through the Sanskrit adhivāsayati.

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

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