(individual) life, lifetime, span of life; living, livelihood (cp jīvikā) Vin.ii.191; SN.i.42; SN.iv.169, SN.iv.213; MN.ii.73 (appaṃ) AN.i.155, AN.i.255; AN.iii.72; AN.iv.136 (appakaṃ parittaṃ); Snp.181 Snp.440, Snp.574, Snp.577, Snp.931, Snp.1077; Dhp.110, Dhp.111, Dhp.130; Ja.i.222; Pv.i.11#11 (ittaraṃ); Pv.ii.6#7 (vijahati); Dhs.19, Dhs.295; Vism.235, Vism.236; Pts.ii.245; Pv-a.40
■ jīvitā voropeti to deprive of life, to kill Vin.iii.73; DN.iii.235; MN.ii.99; AN.iii.146 AN.iii.436; AN.iv.370 sq.; Pv-a.67.

• -āsā the desire for life AN.i.86;
• -indriya the faculty of life, vitality Vin.iii.73; SN.v.204; Kv.8, Kv.10; Mil.56; Dhs.19; Vism.32, Vism.230 (˚upaccheda destruction of life), Vism.447 (def.); Dhp-a.ii.356 (˚ṃ upacchindati to destroy life) Vv-a.72;
• -kkhaya the dissolution of life, i.e. death Ja.i.222; Pv-a.95, Pv-a.111;
• -dāna “the gift of life,” saving or sparing life Ja.i.167; Ja.ii.154;
• -nikanti desire for life AN.iv.48;
• -parikkhārā (pl.) the requisites of life MN.i.104 sq. AN.iii.120; AN.v.211;
• -pariyādāna the cessation or consummation of life DN.i.46 (= DN-a.i.128); SN.ii.83; AN.iv.13
• -pariyosāna the end of life, i.e. death Ja.i.256; Pv-a.73;
• -mada the pride of life, enumerated under the 3 madā viz. ārogya, yobbana, j.: of health, youth, life DN.iii.220; AN.i.146; AN.iii.72;
• -āsā the desire for life AN.i.86;
• -saṅkhaya = ˚khaya Snp.74; Dhp.331; Cnd.262 (= ˚pariyosāna);
• -hetu (adv.) on the ground of life, for the sake of life AN.iv.201, AN.iv.270

Vedic jīvita, orig. pp. of jīvati “that which is lived,” cp. same formation in Lat. vīta = *vīvita; Gr.βιότη living, sustenace, & δίαιτα, “diet”