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passati

pr 3rd sg of passati (verb)

1. sees
2. understands; gets; lit. sees
3. finds; encounters; meets with; lit. sees
4. looks at; observes; examines; inspects; lit. sees

Built from

• pas — root · see, behold
  The root carries the concrete sense of sight and perception. Cognate with Latin patere (lie open) and Greek phaínomai (appear), all deriving from Indo-European *pekʲ- (to see, to be visible).
• sa — ending · 3rd singular present
  The thematic vowel -a- combined with the personal ending -ti marks the 3rd person singular present indicative active. In this sentence, it indicates the action is happening now and attributed to a third party.

Etymology. From the root √pas (to see, behold), cognate with Latin patere (to lie open, be visible) and English *peep*; the sense 'to see' connects to the root's concrete image of something being manifest or exposed to view. The present stem passati shows the -a- thematic vowel typical of the present tense.

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

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