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vipākaṁ

vipāka

accusative singular masculine of vipāka (noun)

1. result, consequence
2. fruition (of kamma)
3. ripening of actions

Built from

• vi- — prefix · apart, asunder
  Marks the outward manifestation and differentiation of results; works like Latin dis- (divide).
• pāk — root · ripen, cook
  From √pac; the image of cooking/ripening as natural consequence and maturation of conditions.
• -a — ending · masculine nominative stem
  Marks masculine gender; -ṁ (accusative) follows in this surface form.

Analysis. vi- (apart, asunder) + pāka (ripening, from √pac "to cook, ripen"); the ripening that unfolds and branches out into consequences.

Etymology. From vi- + √pac (to cook, ripen); cognate with Latin pacere (to appease, agree), Greek pessein (to ripen). The prefix vi- emphasizes the outward, differentiated unfolding of results.

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

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