adjective continual, chronic. Only in nt. satataṃ (adv.) continually AN.iv.14; Iti.116; Snp.507; Mil.70; Pv.ii.8#11 (= nirantaraṃ Pv-a.110); Pv.iii.7#10 (= sabbakālaṃ Pv-a.207); Pv-a.177; and as ˚-in -vihāra a chronic state of life, i.e. a behaviour remaining even & the same AN.ii.198 = DN.iii.250, DN.iii.281. Cp. sātacca.

with satrā “completely” & sadā “always” to sa˚ “one”: see saṃ˚; lit. “in one (continuous stretch)”