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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024-ite,1 suffix. - -ite is attached to nouns and roots to form nouns with the meanings:
- a person associated with or living in a place;
a person connected with a tribe, leader, set of beliefs, system, etc.:Manhattan + -ite → Manhattanite;Israel + -ite → Israelite;Labor + -ite → Laborite (= someone following the Labor Party). - mineral or fossil;
explosive;
chemical compound or drug product:anthracite; dynamite;sulfite.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-ite,1 - a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader, doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite;
Israelite;
laborite);
minerals and fossils (ammonite;
anthracite);
explosives (cordite;
dynamite);
chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite;
sulfite);
pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite);
a member or component of a part of the body (somite). Cf. -itis.
- Greek, as above
- Latin
- Greek; in some words representing French -ite, German -it, etc.
- Greek -itēs; often directly
- Latin -ita
- Middle English
- a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from adjectives, and from some verbs:composite; erudite;requisite.
- Latin -itus or -ītus past participle suffix
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -ite suffix forming nouns - a native or inhabitant of: Israelite
- a follower or advocate of; a member or supporter of a group: Luddite, labourite
- (in biology) indicating a division of a body or organ: somite
- indicating a mineral or rock: nephrite, peridotite
- indicating a commercial product: vulcanite
Etymology: via Latin -ita from Greek -itēs or directly from Greek -ite suffix forming nouns - indicating a salt or ester of an acid having a name ending in -ous: a nitrite is a salt of nitrous acid
Etymology: from French, arbitrary alteration of -ate1 |