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visuddhena

visuddha

masc instr sg of visuddha (pp); nt instr sg of visuddha (pp)

1. cleansed; purified; refined
2. (of eyes) bright; clear; lit. purified

Built from

• vi — prefix · apart, asunder
  Indicates thorough or complete action; often gives intensive clarity to the root meaning.
• suddh — root · cleanse, purify
  The root means to make clean or clear by separating away defilements. Related to Sanskrit śuddha and cognate with Latin sudor (sweat).
• a — ending · past participle stem
  Forms the past participle stem in Pali; -ena is the instrumental singular inflection applied to this stem.
• ena — ending · instrumental singular
  Marks the instrumental case (by means of, with) in singular number.

Etymology. vi- (apart, asunder) + √suddh (to cleanse, purify). The prefix vi- gives the sense of thorough, complete purification—seeing or making clear by separating away impurities. √suddh is cognate with Sanskrit śuddha and ultimately with English sudatory and Latin sudor (sweat), from the Indo-European root meaning to sweat or exude; the semantic shift from 'exude' to 'cleanse' appears in the notion of purifying by sweating out impurities.

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

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