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aparantapo

aparantapa

masc nom sg of aparantapa (adj)

1. not harming others; not torturing others

Built from

• apa — prefix · away, off
  Spatial prefix meaning away or off; cognate with Latin ab-, English off. Concrete image of pushing away or restraining.
• ranta — root · edge, margin
  The boundary or limit; Sanskrit ranta. Represents the furthest extent one might go in harming.
• pa — ending · making, doing
  Suffix forming agent nouns from roots; cognate with √pā (protect) or √pad (make). Forms the agent 'one who does X'.

Analysis. apa- (away, off) + ranta (border, edge, margin) + -pa (making, doing); 'one who does not push [harm] to the edge/limit [of others]' — a person who refrains from taking violence to its extreme.

Etymology. The prefix apa- (away, off; Latin ab-, English off) combines with ranta (the edge or boundary, cognate with Sanskrit ranta 'margin') and the suffix -pa (from √pā 'protect, make', or √pad 'go'). The image is of restraint: not driving harm all the way to the boundary of another's endurance. Related to Sanskrit aparantapa.

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

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