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vītamohaṁ

vītamohā

accusative singular feminine of vītamohā (adjective)

1. freed from delusion
2. gone beyond confusion

Built from

• vi — prefix · apart, asunder
  Here marking departure, removal: apart from, hence beyond or freed from.
• ta — ending · past participle
  Forms the past participle stem used as adjective; -ta regularly builds resultative adjectives from roots.
• moha — root · delusion
  From a root meaning to become confused or darkened; cognate with English mist, moil. Moha is the second fundamental unwholesomeness in the Pali canon, alongside greed and hatred.
• ā — ending · feminine nominative
  Marks the nominative singular feminine stem (here in accusative vītamohaṁ, but the dictionary form is vītamohā).
• ṁ — ending · accusative singular
  Masculine/neuter accusative singular ending; here declining the derived feminine.

Analysis. vīta (gone beyond, past) + moha (delusion, confusion). The compound expresses a state transcended rather than a quality present.

Etymology. vīta from vi-eti

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

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