manosañcetanā

fem nom sg of manosañcetanā (noun); fem nom pl of manosañcetanā (noun); fem acc pl of manosañcetanā (noun); fem instr sg of manosañcetanā (noun); …

mental intention; mental volition; mental will

Built from

mano — root · mind
From Sanskrit manas; cognate with English "mind" and Greek menos (spirit). Denotes the faculty of thinking and consciousness.
saṁ — prefix · together, completely
Brings elements into unity; here it intensifies the sense of perceiving into a unified, deliberate intention.
cet — root · perceive, notice
√cit means to perceive or notice; in compounds it carries the sense of intentional awareness.
anā — ending · feminine abstract noun
Feminine nominative singular suffix marking an abstract noun derived from a verbal root, here denoting the quality or action of intention.

Analysis. mano (mind) + sañcetanā (intention, volition); a compound denoting intention originating in mind. The first member mano is the nominative singular of manas (mind); sañcetanā is itself a derivative noun from the root √cit (perceive, notice) with the prefix sam- (together, completely).

Etymology. mano- from Sanskrit manas (mind), cognate with English "mind" and Greek menos (strength, spirit) — both from the Indo-European root *men- (think, remember). sañcetanā from saṁ- (together) + √cit (to perceive, notice), literally "perceiving together", hence intention or purposeful volition. The compound fuses mind and intention into a single concept of deliberate mental will.

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

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