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samaṁsalohitaṁ

samaṁsalohita

neuter nominative/accusative singular

1. flesh and blood together
2. the whole body

Built from

• samaṁsa — stem · flesh
  from sam + aṁsa (shoulder, part of body); the concrete sense of 'parts brought together' became the generalized meaning 'flesh'.
• lohita — stem · blood
  from a root meaning 'red' (cognate with Latin rubeus); the color metonymically names the substance.
• -aṁ — ending · accusative singular neuter
  marks the object or absolute form in this nominative/accusative dual-function ending.

Analysis. samaṁsa (flesh) + lohita (blood); a compound denoting the complete physical body as flesh-and-blood substance

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

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