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pivanti

pivati

pr 3rd pl of pivati (verb)

1. drinks; sips; imbibes

Built from

• pi — root · drink
  The bare root meaning to drink, found across Indo-European languages (Latin piō, Greek pínomai). The concrete act of taking liquid into the mouth.
• va — stem · (thematic stem marker)
  The thematic vowel -a- that marks the present stem class (a-conjugation).
• nti — ending · 3rd plural present
  The -nti ending marks third person plural in the present indicative, common to all a-conjugation verbs across Pali.

Etymology. Root √pi, "to drink"; cognate with Latin piō (to drink, as in piōs), Greek pínomai (πίνομαι), and English "pipe" (originally a tube for drinking or water). The root belongs to the Indo-European family *peh₃- (to drink).

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

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