इति

Sanskrit

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /í.t̪i/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.t̪i/

Particle

इति • (íti) (base इ)

in this manner, thus (used to delimit quotes)
- c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata 3.195.7
  समुद्र वालुकापूर्ण उज्जानक इति स्मृतः।
  आगम्य च स दुष्टात्मा तं देशं भरतर्षभ।
  बाधते स्म परं शक्त्या तम उदङ्काश्रमं प्रभो ॥
  samudra vālukāpūrṇa ujjānaka iti smṛtaḥ.
  āgamya ca sa duṣṭātmā taṃ deśaṃ bharatarṣabha.
  bādhate sma paraṃ śaktyā tama udaṅkāśramaṃ prabho .
as you know
having done, then

इत्य् उक्त्वा ― ity uktvā ― having said thus

References

Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 165

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