单词 | -ite |
释义 | -ite 1. suffix forming nouns meaning 'a person or thing connected with':   1. in names of persons: a as natives of a country (Israelite). b often derog. as followers of a movement etc. (pre-Raphaelite; Trotskyite).   2. in names of things: a fossil organisms (ammonite). b minerals (graphite). c constituent parts of a body or organ (somite). d explosives (dynamite). e commercial products (ebonite; vulcanite). f salts of acids having names in - ous (nitrite; sulphite). Etymology: from or after F -ite f. L -ita f. Gk -ites 2. suffix.   1. forming adjectives (erudite; favourite).   2. forming nouns (appetite).   3. forming verbs (expedite; unite). Etymology: from or after L -itus past part. of verbs in -ere, -ere, and -ire |
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