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sampatti

fem nom sg of sampatti (noun); fem voc sg of sampatti (noun)

1. prosperity; welfare; good fortune; success
2. achievement; attainment
3. excellence; magnificence; splendour; beauty
4. completeness; good state

Built from

• sam — prefix · together, completely
  The prefix sam- (variant saṁ- before consonants) conveys things brought into one unified whole, working like Latin con-. Here it transforms the root's sense of arrival into arrival at a completed, prosperous state.
• pad — root · go, reach, fall
  The root √pad means to go or reach a destination, and by extension to attain or achieve. Cognates: English 'path', Latin pes (foot), Sanskrit pada (foot, place).
• ti — ending · feminine agent noun
  The suffix -ti forms feminine abstract nouns from roots. Here it nominalizes the verbal sense into the abstract feminine noun 'a reaching' or 'an attainment', which then takes the sense 'prosperity' or 'welfare' when the arriving is unified and complete.

Analysis. sam + √pad (with feminine agent suffix -ti): 'placing together' + 'reaching/arriving', hence 'arrival at a complete or prosperous state'; the prefix sam- brings the sense of unified wholeness to the root's destination-sense.

Etymology. From saṁ- (together, completely; cognate with English 'same', Latin similis) + √pad (to go, reach, fall; cognate with English 'path', Latin pes 'foot', Sanskrit pada). The root's sense of 'reaching a destination' combined with sam-'s sense of completeness yields 'arrival at prosperity or fullness'. Sanskrit sampatti has the same formation.

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

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