English Explanatory Dictionary

-ite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
  2. Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
  3. Used to form demonyms.
  4. Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.
  5. Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
  6. Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.
  7. Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
  8. Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.
  9. Used to form nouns for kinds, mostly from bases of Ancient Greek origin.
suffix
  1. Forms adjectives.

Pronunciation

/-aɪt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame--ite.wav /-ɪt/

Word forms

-ite -ites

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite From French -ite, from Old French, from Latin -ītēs, from Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Translations

Afrikaans: -iet Azerbaijani: -it Belarusian: -ыт Bulgarian: -ит Catalan: -ita Chinese Mandarin: 礦 /矿 Chinese Mandarin: 石 Czech: -it Danish: -it Dutch: -iet Esperanto: -ito Estonian: -iit Finnish: -iitti Finnish: -lainen French: -ite Galician: -ita German: -it Greek: -ίτης Hebrew: ־יט Hungarian: -it Hungarian: -i Indonesian: -it Interlingua: -ite Interlingua: -ita Irish: -ít Japanese: 砿 Japanese: 石 Korean: 석 Latvian: -īts Lithuanian: -itas Norwegian Bokmål: -itt Norwegian Nynorsk: -itt Persian: -یت Polish: -yt Polish: -it Portuguese: -ite Portuguese: -ita Portuguese: -ito Romanian: -it Russian: -ит Russian: -ин Serbo-Croatian: -it Serbo-Croatian: -ит Slovak: -it Slovene: -it Spanish: -ita Spanish: -ito Swedish: -it Turkish: -it Turkish: -li Ukrainian: -ит Uzbek: -it
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