The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

(a); v.114 sq.; DhA iii.243; -- vajja a grave sin Vin ii.87 (a); M ii.250; -- vattha a coarse garment J v.383; --
sar"ra (adj.) fat, corpulent J i.420; iv.220 (opp. kisa thin); -- s!&aka coarse cloth DhA i.393 (a).
Th(lat!
Th(lat! (f.) [abstr. to th(la] coarseness, roughness, vile- ness J iv.220.
Theta
Theta (adj.) [Sk. from ti&&hita, Müller P. Gr. 7=sth!t%] firm, reliable, trustworthy, true D i.4 (DA i.73: theto
ti thiro; &hita -- katho ti attho); M i.179; S iv.384; A ii.209=Pug 57; Nd2 623. -- abl. thetato in truth S
iii.112. -- attheta J iv.57 (=athira).
Thena
Thena [Vedic stena & st!yu, besides which t!yu, the latter prob. original, cp. Gr. tu_ta/w to deprive; Oir.
t!id thief, to a root meaning "conceal"] a thief adj. stealing: athenena not stealing, not stealthily, openly D
i.4; DA i.72. f. athen" A iii.38. Cp. kumbhatthena Vin ii.256 (see k.).
Thenaka
Thenaka [=prec.] a thief J vi.115.
Theneti
Theneti [Denom. fr. thena] to steal, to conceal J iv.114; DhA i.80.
Theyya
Theyya (nt.) [Vedic steya] theft Vin i.96; A i.129; Sn 119 (theyy! adinna' !diyati); 242, 967 (˚' na
kareyya); Vv 158 (: theyya' vuccati thenabh!vo VvA 72); Miln 264, 265; Vism 43 (˚paribhoga); DA i.71;
Sdhp 55, 61. -- citta intending to steal Vin iii.58; -- sa'v!saka one who lives clandestinely with the
bhikkhus (always foll. by titthiyapakkantaka) Vin i.86, 135, 168, 320; v.222; Miln 310; -- sankh!ta' (adv.)
by means of theft, stealthily D iii.65 sq., 133; A iii.209; iv.370 sq.; v.264.
Thera
Thera [Vedic sthavira. Derivation uncertain. It may come from sth! in sense of standing over, lasting (one
year or more), cp. th!vara old age, then "old= venerable"; (in meaning to be compared w. Lat. senior, etc.
from num. sem "one" =one year old, i. e. lasting over one and many more years). Cp. also vetus=Gr. e)/tos,
year, E. wether, one year old ram, as cpd. w. veteran, old man. Or it may come from sth! in der. *sthe9! in
sth(ra (sth(la: see etym. under th(la) thus, "strong= venerable"] t.t. only used with ref. to the bhikkhus of
Gotama Buddha's community. -- (a) (adj.) senior, Vin i.47, 290 (th. bhikkh( opp. nav! bh.), 159 (th.
bhikkhu a senior bh. opp. to navaka bh. a novice), 187; ii.16, 212. Therânuther! bhikkh( seniors & those
next to them in age dating not from birth, but from admission to the Order). Three grades are distinguished,
thera bh., majjhima bh., nava bh., at D i.78. -- See also A ii.23, 147, 168; v.201, 348; D iii.123 sq., 218; Dh
260, 261. In Sangha -- thera, used of Bhikkhus not senior in the Order, the word thera means distinguished.
Vin ii.212, 303. In Mah!thera the meaning, as applied to the 80 bhikkhus so called, must also have some
similar meaning D"pv iv.5 Psalms of the Brethren xxxvi.; J v.456. At A ii.22 it is said that a bhikkhu,
however junior, may be called thera on account of his wisdom. It is added that four characteristics make a
man a thera -- high character, knowing the essential doctrines by heart, practising the four Jh!nas, and
being conscious of having attained freedom through the destruction of the mental intoxications. It is already
clear that at a very early date, before the Anguttara reached its extant shape, a secondary meaning of thera