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vacīsucaritena

vacīsucarita

nt instr sg of vacīsucarita (noun)

1. good verbal conduct; lit. good behaviour with speech

Built from

• vacī — root · speech (instrumental)
  From √vac "speak, say"; cognate with Latin vox, English voice. The instrumental case marks the agent or means of action.
• su — prefix · well, good
  Cognate with Greek eu- (eulogy). Indicates excellence or ease in the action that follows.
• car — root · go, move, behave
  Cognate with English car, Latin currere "run". Here in the abstract sense of conducting oneself or behaving.
• ita — ending · conducted (past participle)
  Marks the adjective as a past participle form, forming sucarita "well-conducted" modifying the noun.

Analysis. vacī (speech, instrumental of vac) + sucarita (well-conducted, su- + carita), a compound denoting ethical conduct of speech as one of the three divisions of right conduct (bodily, verbal, mental) in the Noble Eightfold Path.

Etymology. sucarita derives from su- (well, good; Greek eu-) + carita (conducted, past participle of carati "goes, behaves"; from √car "move, walk", cognate with English car and Latin currere). vacī is instrumental of vac (speech, √vac "speak"; cognate with Latin vox, English voice).

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

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