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viveceyyāmāti

viveceti

3rd person singular optative of viveceti

1. separates; dissuades (from)
2. discriminates
3. criticizes

Built from

• vi — prefix · apart, asunder
  Prefix marking separation and clarity. Works like Latin dis-.
• vec — root · separate, sift, pick
  Root expressing the act of picking apart or dividing. Related to Latin vicus (section, street).
• e — stem · present stem
  Thematic vowel forming the present-system stem.
• yyā — ending · optative
  Optative ending (3rd person singular), marking potential or wished-for action.
• ma — ending · optative marker
  Part of the optative formation in -eyyā-ma.
• ti — ending · quotation particle
  Enclitic particle "it is said", marking reported or hypothetical speech.

Analysis. vi- + veceti (optative viveceyyā); a contraction with iti "it is said", forming a quoted or reported clause: "(one) might separate/discriminate, (it is said)"

Etymology. vi- (apart, asunder) + √vic/vij (to separate, sift, pick out), cognate with Latin vicus "village, street" (originally a division or section), and English "wick" (a division of a town); the prefix vi- sharpens the root's sense of distinc­tion and discernment.

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

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