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codito

codita

masc nom sg of codita (pp)

1. accused; rebuked; charged; blamed
2. impelled; incited; exhorted

Built from

• co- — root · urge, strike
  Concrete sense of striking or driving forward; in compounds often means 'inciting' or 'accusing'. Cognate with Latin caudex (struck/driven thing) and possibly English code as a marked or struck record.
• -d- — stem · past stem marker
  Connects the root to the participial ending, forming the weak grade codita.
• -ita — ending · past participle
  Marks the word as a past participle in masculine nominative singular; agrees with the noun it qualifies in gender, number, and case.

Etymology. Past participle of codeti, from √cod (cognate with Latin caudex 'tree trunk', originally 'something struck or driven'; English 'code' in the sense of 'struck record'). The root's concrete sense of 'striking, driving' shifted to 'spurring on' and hence 'accusing' or 'charging'. Related to Sanskrit codayati.

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

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