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jātipi

jāti

feminine noun, nominative singular with enclitic particle api

1. birth; rebirth; conception
2. class; caste; social status; lit. birth
3. age; years; lit. birth
4. type; kind; category (of)

Built from

• jā — root · be born
  The concrete image is generation and coming-into-being. Cognates: Sanskrit jan-, Latin gignō 'beget', English kin, kind, genus; all from Indo-European *genə- 'to produce, beget'.
• ti — ending · nominative singular feminine
  Standard feminine -ī becomes -ti in nominative; marks jāti as feminine noun subject or predicate nominative.
• pi — ending · also, even
  Enclitic particle api (shortened to pi after vowels) adds emphasis, concession, or extension: 'also', 'even', 'moreover'. Focuses or broadens the scope of the preceding word.

Analysis. jāti (birth, class) + api (also, even, indeed) — the particle api adds emphasis or concession: 'birth itself', 'even by birth', or contextually 'birth-wise too'.

Etymology. jāti from √jan 'to be born' (Sanskrit janati, Latin gignō, English kin, genus, kind all descend from Indo-European *genə-); the root's sense of 'generating, coming into being' yields both the event (birth) and its categorical result (class, type, kind). The enclitic api (Sanskrit api) means 'also, even, moreover' and derives from the same root.

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

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