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sugate

sugata

masc acc pl of sugata (adj); nt acc pl of sugata (adj); masc loc sg of sugata (adj); nt loc sg of sugata (adj); …

1. faring well; going well; doing well; fortunate; who has reached the destination; lit. well gone
2. Accomplished One; Fortunate One; epithet of the Buddha; lit. well gone
3. standard; commonly accepted; (comm) indication that a given measure is to be multiplied by three; lit. well-gone

Built from

• su- — prefix · well, good
  The prefix su- carries the sense of ease, proximity, and excellence. In sugata, it intensifies the notion of arrival at a destination.
• gata — stem · gone, arrived
  Past participle of √gam (go), expressing the perfective sense of having reached. The compound sugata = 'well-arrived,' applied classically to the Buddha as one who has reached the goal (nibbāna).

Etymology. su- (well, good) + gata (gone, past participle of gacchati 'go'). The spatial sense of su- (proximity, ease, well-being) combines with the perfective sense of gata to mean 'one who has gone well,' i.e., reached the destination or final goal. Cognates: su- from PIE *su- (good), same root as Greek eu- (eulogy); gata from PIE *gʰem- (go), cognate with English come, Latin venio.

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

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