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muttācāro

muttācāra

masc nom sg of muttācāra (adj)

1. free from social conventions; who has rejected social norms

Built from

• mutt — stem · freed, released
  Past participle of √muc (to release, loosen). Mutt- forms the adjectival stem; cognate with Sanskrit mocita and Latin mitto (send, let go).
• ā — prefix · up to, toward
  Originally directional; here intensifying the sense of the root car. Shows the behaviour as a path that leads toward freedom from convention.
• car — root · go, move, conduct
  √car means to move, walk, travel, and by extension to conduct oneself, behave. Related to Sanskrit cāra (movement, spy—one who moves) and English 'car' (via the notion of conveyance).
• a — ending · masculine nominative singular
  Masculine singular nominative ending on an a-stem adjective, marking the subject of a clause or predicate nominative.

Analysis. mutt(a) + ācāra: 'freed' (from past participle mutta, 'released, loosed') + 'conduct, behaviour' (ācāra from √car 'go, move, conduct oneself'). One whose conduct is loosed from conventional restraint.

Etymology. mutta derives from √muc 'to release, free' (Sanskrit mocut-, Latin muscae 'flies' via scatter-sense); ācāra from √car 'to move, go, behave' (Sanskrit cāra, English 'car'avan via the path one travels). The compound denotes one who has broken free of social behavioural norms.

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

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