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satthena

sattha

masc instr sg of sattha (noun); nt instr sg of sattha (noun)

1. caravan; travel party; convoy; lit. with purpose
2. weapon; knife; sword
3. scalpel; razor
4. words in retaliation; (comm) physical misconduct; lit. weapon
5. science; art
6. lore
7. breath; life; lit. breathed

Built from

• sa- — prefix · together, with
  From sam- (voiced assimilation before tth-). Brings things into unity.
• tth — root · gather, fit, put together
  The root sañch- appears as -tth- after assimilation. Sanskrit sañchati shows the same root.
• -a — ending · masculine/neuter nominative stem-formant
  Forms the lemma; instrumental -ena follows in this form.

Etymology. From √sañch- "to gather, accumulate" (Sanskrit sañchati). The sense "caravan" derives from the concrete image of things gathered together for travel; "weapon" from things assembled or fitted; "science" from knowledge gathered and ordered. Cognate with Sanskrit saṁhita ("collected, joined"), and distantly with English "synthetic" (from Greek syntithenai "put together").

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

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