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bhāsite

bhāsita

nt acc pl of bhāsita (noun); nt loc sg of bhāsita (noun); masc acc pl of bhāsita (pp); nt acc pl of bhāsita (pp); …

1. bhāsita (nt): saying; speech; statement; utterance; talk; words; lit. what was said
2. bhāsita (pp): said; spoken; recited (by)
3. bhāsita (nt): (gram) ?? word
4. bhāsita (nt): speaking; talking; saying; lit. spoken
5. bhāsitar (masc): speaker; who talks (about)

Built from

• bhās — root · speak, shine
  The root bhāṣ/bhās means 'to speak' or 'to shine forth', with concrete imagery of utterance emerging into light. Shared with Sanskrit bhāṣati.
• ita — ending · past participle
  The suffix -ita forms the past participle, marking a completed action. In this context, 'what has been spoken' or 'the spoken thing'.

Etymology. From √bhāṣ (bhās-), meaning 'to speak, shine forth'; cognate with Sanskrit bhāṣ- and related to the Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- 'to shine, speak' (English 'base', Latin 'basis' in the sense of 'foundation' from which speech issues). The -ita suffix marks the past participle, 'what has been spoken'.

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

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