dutiyaka

adjective noun

  1. the second, following, next Ja.i.504 (˚cittavāre); ˚ṃ a second time MN.i.83
  2. a companion; only in f. dutiyikā a wife or female compound Vin.iv.230, Vin.iv.270 (a bhikkhunī as compound of another one); Freq. as purāṇa-dutiyikā one’s former wife Vin.i.96; Vin.iii.16; SN.i.200; MN.ii.63; Ja.i.210; Ja.v.152; Dhp-a.i.77. Cp. Mvu.ii.134 dvitīyā in the same sense.

Dimin. of dutiya