पतति

पतति (root pat, first conjugation)

1. Devanagari script form of patati (“to fall”)

• Present active participle: पतन्त् (patant), which see for forms and usage
• Present middle participle: पतमान (patamāna), which see for forms and usage
• Causative: पातेति (pāteti) (pāteti), पातयति (pātayati) (pātayati)
• Past participle: पतित (patita) (patita)

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *pátati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pátati, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti (“to fall; fly”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (pataⁱti), Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai, “I fly”), Latin petō (“I ask, I aim for”), Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ, “flight, desire”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɐ́.tɐ.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐ.t̪ɐ.t̪i/

पतति • (pátati) third-singular indicative (class 1, type P, root पत्)

1. to fly, soar, rush on
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.108.5:

     इ॒मा गाव॑: सरमे॒ या ऐच्छ॒: परि॑ दि॒वो अन्ता॑न्त्सुभगे॒ पत॑न्ती।
     कस्त॑ एना॒ अव॑ सृजा॒दयु॑ध्व्यु॒तास्माक॒मायु॑धा सन्ति ति॒ग्मा॥

     imā́ gā́va: sarame yā́ aíccha: pári divó ántāntsubhage pátantī.
     kásta enā áva sṛjādáyudhvyutā́smā́kamā́yudhā santi tigmā́.

     These are the kine which, Sarama, thou seekest, flying, O Blest One, to the ends of heaven.
     Who will loose these for thee without a battle? Yea, and sharp-pointed are our warlike weapons.

2. to fall down or off, alight, descend (with accusative or locative), fall or sink
3. (figurative) to fall (in a moral sense), lose caste or rank or position
4. to light or fall upon, fall to a person's share (+ locative)
5. to fall or get into or among (loc.)
6. to occur, come to pass, happen
7. (causative) to fly or move rapidly along
8. (causative, transitive) to speed
9. (causative) to drive away or throw down
10. (causative) to let fly or cause to fall, to fling, hurl, throw
11. to lay low, bring down (literally and figuratively), overthrow, ruin, destroy, to throw upon or in, lay on (+ locative)
12. to throw oneself
13. to cut off (a head)
14. to knock out (teeth)
15. to pour out or shed (water, tears)
16. to kindle (fire)
17. to cast (dice)
18. to turn, direct, fix (eyes)
19. to impose or inflict (punishment)
20. to set in motion, set on foot
21. to seduce to, betray into (+ locative)
22. to divide in two
23. to subtract
24. to rush on, hasten
25. (desiderative) to be about to fly or fall (पिपतिषति (pipatiṣati); पित्सति (pitsati))

Forms of Sanskrit verbs are numerous and complicated. The following conjugation shows only a subset of all forms and should be treated as a guide.

• पापतीति (pā́patīti)

• Pali: patati
• Prakrit: 𑀧𑀟𑀇 (paḍaï) (see there for further descendants)

• Monier Williams (1899) “पतति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 580, 581.