The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Poris!da [fr. purisa+ad to eat] man -- eater, cannibal J v.34 sq., 471 sq., 486, 488 sq., 499, 510.
Poris!daka
Poris!daka=poris!da J v.489. Cp. purs!daka J v.91.
Porisiya
Porisiya (adj.) [fr. purisa, cp. porisa & poroseyya] 1. of human nature, human J iv.213. -- 2. Of the height of
man Vin ii.138.
Poroseyya
Poroseyya=porisiya (cp. porisa1 1) fit for man, human M i.366. The word is somewhat doubtful, but in all
likelihood it is a derivation fr. pura (cp. porin; Sk. *paura), thus to be understood as *paurasya>*porasya
>*poraseyya> *poroseyya with assimilation. The meaning is clearly "very fine, urbane, fashionable"; thus
not derived from purisa, although C. expls by "puris' ânucchavika' y!na'" (M. i.561). The passage runs
"y!na' poroseyya' pavara -- ma*i -- ku*.ala'"; with vv. ll. voropeyya & oropeyya. Neumann accepts
oropeyya as reading & translates (wrongly) "belüde": see Mittl. Slg. 21921; vol. ii. pp. 45 & 666. The
reading poroseyya seems to be established as lectio difficilior. On form see also Trenckner, Notes 75.
Porohita=purohita
Porohita=purohita; DhA i.174 (v. l. BB pur˚).
Porohacca
Porohacca (nt.) [fr. purohita] the character or office of a family priest D ii.243. As porohicca at Sn 618
(=purohita -- kamma SnA 466). Cp. Trenckner, Notes 75.
Posa
Posa1 [contraction of purisa fr. *p(r+a>*pussa>*possa> posa. So Geiger, P.Gr. 303]=purisa, man (poetical
form, only found in verse) Vin i.230; S i.13, 205= J iii.309; A iv.266; Sn 110, 662; Dh 104, 125 (cp. DhA
iii.34); J v.306; vi.246, 361. -- poso at J iii.331 is gen. sg. of pu's=Sk. pu'sa1.
Posa
Posa2 (adj.) [=*po+ya, grd. of poseti, pu+] to be fed or nourished, only in dup˚ difficult to nourish S i.61.
Posaka
Posaka (adj.) [fr. posa2] nourishing, feeding A i.62, 132= It 110 (!p!daka+); f. ˚ik! a nurse, a female
attendant Vin ii.289 (!p!dik!+).
Posat!
Posat! (f.) [abstr. fr. posa2] only -- ˚, in su˚ & dup˚ easy & difficult support Vin ii.2.
Posatha