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vitamiddho

vitamiddha

masc nom sg of vitamiddha (adj)

1. without drowsiness; lit. gone stiffness

Built from

• vi — prefix · apart, without
  Intensive negation: things pulled apart, hence away from a state. Cognate with di- in English 'divide' and Latin dis-.
• middha — root · drowsiness, torpor
  Mental sluggishness or dullness. Related to Sanskrit middha and the root √mid- 'to be soft, slack, inert'.

Analysis. vi- + middha: 'apart from' drowsiness/torpor; the prefix vi- intensifies the negation, yielding 'utterly without'.

Etymology. middha (torpor, sluggishness of mind) is cognate with Sanskrit middha and ultimately with the root √mid- 'to be soft, slack'; the prefix vi- (apart, asunder) gives intensive force to the negation, paralleling Greek dia- and Latin dis- in similar clarifying compounds.

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

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