पतिः [patiḥ] [पा-डतिं]
A master, lord; as in गृहपतिः.
An owner, possessor, proprietor; क्षेत्रपतिः.
Governor, ruler, one who presides over; ओषधीपतिः, वनस्पतिः, कुलपतिः &c.
A husband; प्रमदाः पतिवर्त्मगा इति प्रतिपन्नं हि विचेतनैरपि
[Ku.4.33.] A root.
Going, motion, fight. -f.
A female possessor, a mistress.
A wife.
Comp. घातिनी, घ्नी a woman who murders her husband.
a line on the hand showing that a woman will be faithless to her husband.
-देवता, -देवा one who regards her husband as a divinity, a woman loyally devoted to her husband, a chaste woman; कः पतिदेवतामन्यः परिमार्ष्टुमुत्सहते
[Ś.6;] तमलभन्त पतिं पतिदेवताः शिखरिणामिव सागरमापगाः
[R.9.17;] धुरिस्थिता त्वं पतिदेवतानाम् 14.74.
-धर्मः duty (of a wife) towards a husband.-प्राणा a chaste wife.
-लङ्घनम् disregarding a former husband by marrying another; cf.
[Ms.5.151.] -वेदनः N. N. of Śiva. (-नम्) procuring a husband (by magical means); धातुर्देवस्य सत्येन कृणोमि पतिवेदनम्
[Av.2.36.2.] -लोकः the world of husbands in a future life; पतिलोक- मभीप्सन्ती नाचरेत् किंचिदप्रियम्
[Ms.5.156.] -व्रता a devoted, faithful and loyal wife, a chaste and virtuous wife; ˚त्वम् fidelity to a husband.
-सेवा devotion to a husband; वैवाहिको विधिः स्त्रीणां संस्कारो वैदिकः स्मृतः । पतिसेवा गुरौ वासो गृहार्थोऽग्निपरिक्रिया ॥
[Ms.2.67.]