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sītodakapaṭikkhitto

sītodakapaṭikkhitta

masc nom sg of sītodakapaṭikkhitta (adj)

1. refusing cold water; rejecting cool water

Built from

• sīta — root · cold
  From √si- 'to bind, chill'; related to Sanskrit śīta (cold). Describes temperature or emotional coldness.
• odaka — root · water
  Common Pali noun for water; related to Sanskrit udaka. A cognate path with English 'water' (Indo-European *wed-) is distant but the root *ud- 'wet' underlies both.
• paṭi — prefix · back, against
  Spatial prefix: originally meant motion backward or opposition. Here it marks rejection or throwing back. Cognate with Greek pros 'toward, against'.
• kkhitta — ending · thrown, rejected
  Past participle of kkhipati 'throw'; the morpheme marks the action as completed and the whole compound as an adjective describing the subject. Saṁdhi: kkhipita > kkhitta (geminates -pp- to -kh-).

Analysis. A past participle compound: sīta- 'cold' + odaka- 'water' + paṭikkhitta 'rejected, refused' (from paṭi- 'back, against' + kkhitta 'thrown'). Literally 'having thrown back cold water', i.e., rejecting or refusing to accept cold water—a descriptive epithet in the canon.

Etymology. Paṭikkhitta derives from paṭi- (back, against) + the past participle of kkhipati (to throw), cognate with Sanskrit kṣipati. The spatial sense 'back' originally meant physically throwing something away or rejecting it, which extends to refusal in a general sense.

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

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