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mānito

mānita

masc nom sg of mānita (pp); nt abl sg of mānī (adj)

1. mānita (pp): esteemed; respected; highly regarded
2. mānī (adj): imagining; thinking; conceiving
3. mānī (adj): overestimating oneself to be; overrating oneself to be; lit. thinking; imagining
4. mānī (adj): who is proud

Built from

• mān — root · think, measure, esteem
  From √mānati, carrying the sense of mental appraisal and self-measure. Cognate with Sanskrit mānayati and Greek menos (spirit, inner measure).
• ita — ending · past participle
  Marks the word as a completed or passive action: 'one who has been measured/valued/esteemed'. In this nominative singular masculine form, it functions as an adjective meaning 'respected' or 'regarded'.

Etymology. From √mānati (think, imagine, measure). Cognate with Sanskrit mānayati, Greek μένος menos (spirit, courage, wrath—the inner measure or estimate of oneself), and Latin mēns (mind, mental capacity). The root sense is 'to measure' or 'to stand at a size'; mānita as past participle shifts to 'measured out' hence 'valued, esteemed', while mānī (adj) retains the sense of one who measures or estimates (oneself), leading to pride and conceit.

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

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