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mute

muta

masc acc pl of muta (pp); nt acc pl of muta (pp); masc loc sg of muta (pp); nt loc sg of muta (pp); …

1. sensed; perceived; (or) thought; (comm) smelled, tasted, touched
2. what is sensed; what is perceived; (or) what is thought; lit. thought; known

Built from

• mud — root · perceive, think
  The root carries the sense of grasping mentally. Cognates: Latin mens "mind", English "mind", Greek menos "thought, spirit" — all from the same IE root *men- "to think, hold in mind".
• -ta — ending · past participle
  The -ta ending marks the word as a past participle, converting the verbal root into an adjective describing something that has been perceived or thought.

Etymology. √mud "to perceive, think" (Sanskrit mutta-, pp. of manute "thinks"; related to English "mind", Latin mens "mind", Greek menos "thought, spirit"). The root conveys the concrete sense of grasping or holding something mentally, which abstracts to knowing and perceiving.

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

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