adoso

adosa

masc nom sg of adosa (noun); masc nom sg of adosa (adj)

non-hatred; kindness
without hatred; with no malevolence
flawless; without defect; faultless; lit. no fault
matter of no consequence; not a fault

Built from

a- — prefix · not, without
Plain negation: plain negation. Cognate with English un- and Greek a(n)-.
dosa — root · hatred, fault, defect
Cognate with Sanskrit doṣa 'fault, blemish'. The root sense is 'to injure' or 'corrupt'; hatred and fault are the injurious qualities themselves.

Etymology. a- (prefix: not, without) + dosa (noun: hatred, fault, defect). The negation dosa is cognate with Sanskrit doṣa 'fault, blemish', from a root meaning 'to injure' or 'to blame'; the same root family appears in Latin vitium 'vice' via different sound laws. In canonical usage, adosa is one of the three wholesome mental qualities (kuśalā mūlā), alongside alobha and amoha, representing the absence of hatred as a ground for ethical action.

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

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