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pasārite

pasārita

nt acc pl of pasārita (noun); nt loc sg of pasārita (noun); masc acc pl of pasārita (pp); nt acc pl of pasārita (pp); …

1. stretching out; straightening; extending; lit. causing to go forward
2. stretched out; straightened; extended; lit. caused to go forward

Built from

• pa — prefix · forward, forth
  Intensifying prefix indicating action that proceeds outward and ahead. Cognate with Latin pro-, Greek pro-.
• sār — root · move, stretch, go
  The root of sarīra (body) and Sanskrit sariti (flows). The concrete image is of motion or flowing out.
• ita — ending · past participle
  Marks the word as a past participle (pp) or derived adjective, indicating the state resulting from the action of the root.

Analysis. pa- (forward, forth) + √sar- (move, go) + -ita (past participle ending). Lit. 'caused to go forward'; the prefix pa- intensifies the action of stretching or extending outward.

Etymology. √sar- 'to go, move, flow' appears in Sanskrit sarati, related to Latin serero and English 'series'. The prefix pa- (from proto-Indo-European *per-) adds the sense of forward motion and completion. The past participle -ita regularly forms adjectives from verb roots.

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

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