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navamaṁ

navama

accusative singular masculine of navama (ordinal numeral), modifying an understood noun

1. ninth
2. ninth (thing or person)

Built from

• nava — root · nine
  Cardinal number. Cognate with Latin novem, English nine, from PIE *h₁néwn̥.
• -ma — ending · ordinal marker
  Suffix that forms ordinals from cardinals (nava 'nine' → navama 'ninth', dasa 'ten' → dasama 'tenth'). The final -ṁ marks accusative singular masculine case.

Etymology. From nava 'nine' (Sanskrit nava, Latin novem, English nine — all from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥) + -ma, the ordinal suffix. The ordinal is derived regularly from the cardinal by adding the suffix -ma.

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

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