atimāno

atimāna

masc nom sg of atimāna (noun)

arrogance; pride; haughtiness; self-importance

Built from

ati — prefix · over, beyond
Spatial prefix meaning 'beyond the mark' or 'to excess'. The concrete sense of overstepping becomes the abstract idea of arrogance.
mān — root · pride, conceit
Root meaning to think highly of oneself. Related to Sanskrit manyate 'thinks, believes' and ultimately to Latin magnus 'great' and English 'mighty' (all from PIE *me-gh-).
a — ending · masculine nominative
Nominative singular masculine ending that marks the subject of a sentence.

Etymology. ati- (over, beyond the mark) + māna (pride, conceit), literally 'pride that exceeds the proper measure'. Sanskrit atimāna; cognate with Latin magnus via Indo-European *me-gh- (great, mighty).

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

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