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samāhite

samāhita

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

1. meditatively composed; centred; collected; settled; steadied; lit. placed together here
2. having; who has; endowed (with); lit. placed together here

Built from

• sam — prefix · together, with
  Prefix of unity and composition. Cognate to English 'same', Latin 'con-', Greek 'homo-'. Carries the concrete sense of bringing many things into one.
• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  Prefix that reverses direction verbs, here intensifying the sense of 'placing into'. No common European cognate; Sanskrit ā. Marks the direction and completion of the action.
• dhā — root · place, put
  Root √dhā (to place, put, lay down). Cognate to Sanskrit dhā, English 'do', Greek 'tithēmi', Latin 'facere'. The concrete image is of setting something down deliberately.
• ta — ending · past participle
  Past participle suffix -ta, marking a completed action. Here it makes samāhita an adjective meaning 'placed together', describing the collected, steadied state of mind.

Analysis. sam- (together) + ā- (up to, unto) + √dhā (place): things placed together into one state of mind.

Etymology. From sam + ā + √dhā (place, put). The prefix sam- (together, with; cognate English same, Latin con-) and ā- (toward, up to; reverses motion) combine with the root √dhā (to place, put; Sanskrit dhā, cognate English do, Greek tithēmi). The compound imagery is concrete: as materials are gathered and placed together into a single pile, so mental factors are unified and settled into one collected state. In Buddhist meditation theory, samāhita describes the mind brought into unified focus—the hallmark of samādhi (collectedness).

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

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