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saccakassa

saccaka

masc dat sg of saccaka (noun); masc gen sg of saccaka (noun)

1. name of a Jain; lit. truthful

Built from

• sac(c) — root · truth, real
  From Indo-European *sth₂- (stand, be firm). Cognate with Latin satis (enough, true) and Sanskrit satya-. The concrete sense is what stands firm and endures.
• -a — stem · masculine nominative stem former
  Standard masculine singular stem ending in -a (like Pali nara-, vīra-).
• -ka — ending · diminutive or agent
  Suffix forming an agent noun or diminutive adjective; here "truthful one" or "one belonging to truth."
• -ss(a) — ending · genitive or dative marker
  The surface form -ssa is the genitive singular ending for a-stem masculines (< *-sya); it can also mark the dative singular in oblique contexts.

Etymology. From √satya- (truth) + diminutive suffix -ka. The root satya- is cognate with Latin satis "enough, true" and English sate; it carries the sense of "what holds firm, what is real." In the nominal form saccaka, the -ka suffix creates a diminutive or agent noun, yielding "truthful one" — though in the canon Saccaka is the proper name of a Jain sophist who debates the Buddha on questions of self and body.

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

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