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manoduccaritena
manoduccarita
nt instr sg of manoduccarita (noun)
- mental misconduct; misbehaviour by mind
Built from
- mano — root · mind
From √man 'think'. Cognates: Latin mens, English mind. The concrete sense is the organ that moves through or tracks thoughts.
- du — prefix · bad, wrongly
Excess or going astray. Cognates: Greek dys- (dysfunction). The prefix keeps the spatial sense of awry or downward motion applied abstractly to conduct.
- car — root · move, walk
Concrete: motion along a path. Cognates: Latin currere 'run', English current. Applied to conduct (carita), it means the 'path' or 'way' one walks morally.
- ita — ending · done, conducted
Past participle suffix -ita, marking completed or settled action. Here it nominalizes the action into a noun meaning 'conduct' or 'what is walked'.
Analysis. mano (mind) + duccarita (misconduct); saṁyojana formed from du- (bad) + carita (conduct, from √car 'move').
Etymology. du- 'bad, gone wrong' (Greek dys-) + carita 'conduct' from √car 'move, walk' (Latin currere 'run', English current); mano 'mind' from √man 'think' (Latin mens, English mind). The prefix du- renders abstract the spatial sense of downward or awry motion.