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pītimanassa

pītimana

masc dat sg of pītimana (adj); nt dat sg of pītimana (adj); masc gen sg of pītimana (adj); nt gen sg of pītimana (adj)

1. delighted; exhilarated; thrilled; joyful; lit. enraptured mind

Built from

• pīti — root · joy, gladness
  From √pi- (to please, delight). The emotional sense of rapture follows naturally from the basic sense of something being pleasing or delightful to the mind.
• mana — root · mind, thought
  From √man (to think, measure), cognate with English mind, Latin mens, and Sanskrit manas. The root carries the sense of standing out or becoming manifest in thought.
• ssa — ending · dative/genitive singular
  The -ssa ending marks dative or genitive singular across masculine and neuter genders, indicating the recipient or possessor in context (e.g., "for the one of/with enraptured mind").

Analysis. pīti (joy, gladness) + mana (mind): a mind filled with joy; the compound shows how emotional rapture is understood as a state of mind.

Etymology. pīti from √pi- (to delight, please), related to Latin pius "dutiful, devoted" through the sense of pleasing or being pleased. mana from √man (to think, measure), related to English mind, Latin mens, Sanskrit manas; the root reflects Proto-Indo-European *men- "to think, stand out mentally". The compound follows the Pali pattern of joining emotional states (abstract, derived from roots) with mana to denote mental qualities or dispositions.

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

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