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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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