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mānito

mānita

masc nom sg of mānita (pp); nt abl sg of mānī (adj)

1. mānita (pp): esteemed; respected; highly regarded
2. mānī (adj): imagining; thinking; conceiving
3. mānī (adj): overestimating oneself to be; overrating oneself to be; lit. thinking; imagining
4. mānī (adj): who is proud

Etymology. māne + ita; from √man 'think'; Sanskrit mānita [man]

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

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