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samappitā

samappita

masc nom pl of samappita (pp); fem nom sg of samappita (pp); fem nom pl of samappita (pp); nt nom pl of samappita (pp); …

1. provided; appointed; filled (with); having; lit. caused to reach together
2. ended up (in); consigned (to); delivered (to); committed (to); lit. caused to reach together
3. struck; pierced (by); lit. caused to reach together

Built from

• sam — prefix · together, completely
  Concrete sense of gathering into one. Works like Latin con-: things brought into collective union.
• ap — root · reach, attain, go
  Sanskrit āp-; related to Latin apiscor (obtain). The root carries the sense of motion toward and arrival.
• ita — ending · past participle
  Forms the perfect passive: marks the action as completed and in passive voice, making samappita 'having been caused to reach/delivered/struck'.

Analysis. sam + appita, where appita is the past participle of appeti (to reach, attain). saṁ + √ap (reach, attain), hence 'caused to reach together', delivered or consigned as a whole to a destination or recipient. Often used in passive sense: 'delivered to, struck by'.

Etymology. saṁ- (together, completely) + appeti (to reach, attain, go to), from √ap, related to Sanskrit āp- (obtain, reach). The prefix saṁ- transforms the simple sense of reaching into a sense of consignment or delivery as a unified act.

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

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