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pariciṇṇo

pariciṇṇa

masc nom sg of pariciṇṇa (pp)

1. served; attended; waited on (by); lit. walked around
2. practised, accumulated; lit. walked around
3. acquainted with; accustomed; lit. walked around

Built from

• pari — prefix · around, completely
  Spatial sense of encirclement or completeness; when applied to actions, marks thorough accomplishment.
• ci — root · gather, collect, heap
  The concrete image of gathering things together; cognate with Latin ciō and English heap.
• ṇṇa — ending · past participle (masculine nominative singular)
  Perfect passive suffix forming the past participle; masc nom sg agrees with a masculine singular subject.

Analysis. pari + ciṇṇa: pari- (around, completely) + √ci (gather, collect, heap), lit. 'gathered all around', hence thoroughly done or mastered.

Etymology. √ci (gather, collect) is cognate with Latin ciō (set in motion, rouse) and English heap; pari- (around, completely) is from Indo-European *per- (forward, through), cognate with Greek perí (around). The prefix's sense of 'all the way round' yields the meaning 'thoroughly' or 'completely'.

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

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