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avibhattassa

avibhatta

masc dat sg of avibhatta (pp); nt dat sg of avibhatta (pp); masc gen sg of avibhatta (pp); nt gen sg of avibhatta (pp)

1. not analysed in detail; lit. not divided apart
2. not divided; lit. not divided apart

Built from

• a — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation. Cognate with English un-, Greek a(n)-, Latin in-.
• vi — prefix · apart, asunder
  Marks separation into different directions. Cognate with Latin dis- via Indo-European *dwe-; gives clarity and division to the sense of the root.
• bhid — root · split, break
  Sanskrit bhindati, English bite via Indo-European *bheid-. The root describes physical or conceptual division.
• tta — ending · past participle
  Marks completed action or state; forms a verbal adjective. Here it yields 'divided' or 'split', which the prefixes negate.

Analysis. a- (not) + vi- (apart) + bhatta (divided, split), a past participle negated by the prefix a-. The vi- prefix marks the action as separating into parts; the negation reverses it to mean wholeness or indivisibility.

Etymology. √bhid 'to split, break' (Sanskrit bhindati, English bite via Indo-European *bheid-) appears in bhatta. The prefix vi- (from Indo-European *dwe-, cognate with Latin dis-) means 'apart'; a- is the simple negation (cognate with English un-, Greek a-, Latin in-). Together avibhatta expresses the negation of division—undividedness or non-analysis, key to Buddhist descriptions of mental factors that remain unified.

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

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