cavati : [cu + a] passes away; dies; falls away; shifts; passes from one state of existence into another.
Cavati [Vedic cyavate from cyu=Gr. seu/w; cp. Lat. cieo, cio, sollicitus, Gr. ki/w, kine/w, Goth. haitan=Ohg, heizan] to move, get into motion, shift, to fall away, decease, esp. to pass from one state of existence into another D i.14 (sañsaranti c˚ upapajjanti, cp. DA i.105); Kh viii.4 (=KhA 220: apeti vigacchati acetano pi samāno puññakkhaya -- vasena aññaŋ thānaŋ gacchati); It 99= Nd2 2352 (satte cavamāne upapajjamāne); It 77 (devo deva -- kāyā c. "the god falls from the assembly of gods"), Sn 1073 for bhavetha (=Nd2 238;) PvA 10. Caus. cāveti: inf. cāvetuŋ S i.128 sq., 134 (˚kāma.) -- pp. cuta (q. v.), see also cuti.
cavati: 死{ger. cavitvā; pp. cuta; ppr. cavamāna}