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pāpamittoti

pāpamitta

adj; nominative singular masculine (pāpamittoti = pāpamitta + iti, quotative particle)

1. with evil friends; with a bad companion; with wicked associates
2. evil friend; bad companion; wicked associate

Built from

• pāpa — root · bad, evil
  From √pap- meaning to fall or go wrong; the concrete sense of something fallen or ruined becomes moral corruption.
• mitta — root · friend, companion
  From √mit- meaning to join or bind together; one who is joined or united with another. Cognate with Latin mittere and English meat (from the shared sense of meeting and communion).

Analysis. pāpa + mitta; 'bad' + 'friend'. The nominative pāpamitta is quoted or cited by the particle iti ('thus', 'so-called').

Etymology. pāpa: from √pap- (to fall, go wrong), cognate with Latin pappāre 'to eat poorly' and Greek patein 'to stumble'; the root sense is 'gone bad, ruined'. mitta: from √mit- (to join, bind together), cognate with Latin mittere 'to send' and English meat (originally 'a meeting-place for sharing food'); the root sense is 'joined together, companion'.

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

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