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samanupassato

samanupassanta

masc dat sg of samanupassanta (prp); nt dat sg of samanupassanta (prp); masc gen sg of samanupassanta (prp); nt gen sg of samanupassanta (prp)

1. seeing; perceiving; lit. seeing along together

Built from

• sam/saṁ — prefix · together, with
  Things brought into one place or awareness. Cognate with English same, Greek homo-, Latin con-.
• anu — prefix · along, after, following
  Trailing behind, following the track of something. Cognate with Greek ana- in the sense "along, up through".
• pass — root · see, perceive
  Cognate with Latin patēre (be open, visible) and English patience; the concrete sense is the eye turning toward and opening upon an object.
• anta — ending · present participle
  Marks the agent of the action in present continuous time; agreeing here with a masculine or neuter dative or genitive singular noun.

Analysis. saṁ (together) + anu (along, following) + passanta (seeing): the participle of a verb meaning to see or perceive conjointly with something, as when the meditator observes phenomena in union with mindfulness or wisdom.

Etymology. The root √pass (to see, perceive) is cognate with Latin patēre (to be open, visible) and English patience (originally "the quality of enduring and observing"). The prefix saṁ- (together, con-) and anu- (along after, following) combine to yield the sense "seeing along together"—following the track of something while bringing it into one view.

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

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