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-ite 1
suff.（后缀）
  1. Native or resident of:
    …的土著人，…的居民：
    New Jerseyite.
    新泽西人
    1. Descendant of:
      …的后代：
      Levite.
      利未人
    2. Adherent or follower of:
      …的信徒或追随者：
      Luddite.
      卢德派
  3. A part of an organ, body, or bodily part:
    器官、身体的一部分，身体器官：
    somite.
    体节
    1. Rock; mineral:
      岩石；矿产：
      graphite.
      石墨
    2. Fossil:
      化石：
      trilobite.
      古代三叶虫化石
    1. Product:
      产品，制品：
      metabolite.
      新陈代谢
    2. A commercial product:
      商品：
      ebonite.
      硬橡胶

语源
  1. Middle English
    中古英语
  2. from Old French
    源自 古法语
  3. from Latin -ītēs, -īta
    源自 拉丁语 -ītēs, -īta
  4. from Greek -itēs
    源自 希腊语 -itēs
-ite 2
suff.（后缀）
  1. A salt or ester of an acid named with an adjective ending in-ous :
    …酸盐或酸酯：以-ous 形容词词尾命名的酸盐或酸酯：
    sulfite.
    亚硫酸盐

语源
  1. Alteration of -ate 2
    -ate2的变化

-ite1

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

Origin

via Latin -ita from Greek -itēs or directly from Greek

-ite2

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

Origin

from French, arbitrary alteration of -ate1

-ite1

Word Origin
1
a suffix of nouns denoting especially persons associated with a place, tribe, leader, doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, especially 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).
Compare -itis.
Origin
Middle English < Latin -ita < Greek -itēs; often directly < Greek; in some words representing French -ite, German -it, etc. < Latin < Greek, as above

-ite2

1
a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from adjectives, and from some verbs:
composite; opposite; erudite; requisite.
Origin
< Latin -itus or -ītus past participle suffix

Related Words

  • -itic
  • -ition
  • belemnite
  • cellulite
  • dichroite
  • diorite
-iteI.
a suffix of nouns denoting especially:
1. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader, doctrine, system, etc., as in Campbellite, Israelite, Laborite.
2. minerals and fossils, as in ammonite, anthracite.
3. explosives, as in cordite, dynamite.
4. chemical compounds, especially salts of acids whose names end in -ous, as in phosphite, sulphites.
5. pharmaceutical and commercial products, as in vulcanite.
6. a member or component of a part of the body, as in somite.
[from (often directly) Greek -ītēs (feminine -itis), noun and adjective suffix. Compare -itis]
II.
a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from adjectives, and some verbs, as in composite, opposite, requisite, erudite, etc.
[Latin -itus, -ītus, past participle ending]
-ite
I
noun suffix
 ETYMOLOGY  from Latin -ita, -ites, from Greek -itēs
1.
  a. native : resident
      Brooklynite
  b. descendant
      Ephraimite
  c. adherent : follower
      Jacobite
      Puseyite
2.
  a.
    (1) product
       metabolite
    (2) commercially manufactured product
       ebonite
  b. -itol
      mannite
3. [New Latin -ites, from Latin] : fossil
    ammonite
4. mineral
    erythrite
: rock
    anorthosite
5. [French, from Latin -ita, -ites] : segment or constituent part of a body or of a bodily part
    somite
    dendrite

II
noun suffix
 ETYMOLOGY  French, alteration of -ate -ate, from New Latin -atum
: salt or ester of an acid with a name ending in -ous
    nitrite
-ite2
/aɪt/  
suffix
1.
forming adjectives such as composite, erudite
［构成形容词, 如composite, erudite］。
2.
forming nouns such as appetite
［构成名词, 如appetite］ 。
3.
forming verbs such as unite
［构成动词, 如unite］。
词源
from Latin -itus, past participle of verbs ending in -ere and -ire.
-ite1
/aɪt/  
suffix
1.
forming names denoting natives of a country
［构成名称］表示“本地人”：

Israelite.

■  often derogatory denoting followers of a movement, doctrine, etc.
〈常贬〉表示“成员”, “信徒”：

Luddite

Trotskyite.

2.
used in scientific and technical terms
［用于科技术语中］ ：
■  forming names of fossil organisms
［构成化石生物体的名称］：

ammonite.

■  forming names of minerals
［构成矿物的名称］：

graphite.

■  forming names of constituent parts of a body or organ
［构成身体或器官组成部分的名称］：

somite.

■  forming names of explosives and other commercial products
［构成爆炸物及其他商业产品的名称］：

dynamite

vulcanite.

■  Chemistry forming names of salts or esters of acids ending in -ous
【化】［构成以-ous结尾的盐或酸酯的名称］：

sulphite.

词源
from French -ite, via Latin -ita from Greek ītes.
▪ I.-ite, suffix1corresponding to F. -ite, L. -īta (-ītēs), ad. Gr. -ῑ́της, forming adjs. and ns. (of adj. origin) with the sense ‘(one) connected with or belonging to’, ‘a member of’, as in ὁπλίτης adj. heavy armed, n. a heavy-armed soldier (f. ὅπλα armour), πολίτης citizen (f. πόλις city). Its fem. form is -ῖτις (-itis). Both the masc. and fem. forms were extensively used in forming technical names of natural products, diseases, etc.A frequent use in Gr. was to form ethnic and local designations, as ἀβδηρίτης Abderite, σταγιρίτης Stagirite, συβαρίτης Sybarite, ταρταρίτης denizen of Tartarus. Hence, often used by the LXX to render Heb. names in -ī, as in Ἰσραηλίτης Israelite, λευίτης Levite, ἀµαληκίτης Amalekite, Ἰσµαηλίτης Ishmaelite, Μωαβίτης Moabite, σοδοµῖται Sodomites, etc. Later, in Christian use, in the names of sects, styled either after their locality, their founder, or some tenet, rite, or other characteristic, as ἐρηµίτης a desert-dweller, eremite, hermit, νικολαῖται Nicolaitans (pl.), Ἰακωβῖται Jacobites, Μονοϕυσῖται Monophysites, etc. Some of the Greek terms (esp. those in Christian use) were adopted in Latin, either unchanged in -ītēs or often in -īta, the plural (which was more frequent in use) being in -ītæ: thus Stagirītēs, Sybarīta, and, in the Vulgate, etc., Levītēs or Levīta, Israēlitæ, Ismaēlītæ, Ammonītæ, Mōabītæ, Nicolaītæ, Sodomītæ (also Gadītæ, Reubēnītæ, etc., where the LXX have Γάδ, Ῥουβήν); and in later and mediæval writers Marcionītæ, Ebiōnītæ, Azȳmītæ, Marōnītæ, Monophysītæ, etc. Hence the suffix has passed into Fr. and Eng. in the form -ite, pl. -ites. Already in the metrical Genesis & Exodus c 1250 we find Amonit, Arabit; by Wyclif the Vulgate words in -ītæ are duly rendered by forms in -ites, -ytis. In later Biblical versions the ending is extended to other tribal names, e.g. ἀµοῤῥαῖοι, Χαναναῖοι, Vulg. Amorræi, Chananæi, Wyclif Amorrei, Chananei(-ey), 16th c. versions Amorites, Canaanites.Another frequent use of the termination was to form names of minerals and gems (adjectively with λίθος ‘stone’ understood), e.g. ἀνθρακίτης anthracite, αἱµατίτης blood-stone, hæmatite, ὀϕίτης snake-stone, serpentine, σεληνίτης moon-stone, selenite, etc. Nearly all these occur also in L. in Pliny, who moreover adds several not recorded in Greek. These have been handed down and increased by mediæval and early modern Latin writers de proprietatibus rerum, and have given origin to our modern use of -ite in names of fossils and minerals.The following are the chief English uses of the suffix:1. Forming names of persons. (Often also used adjectively.) a. In words already formed in Gr. or L., of the classes above mentioned, and in analogous terms; e.g. Stagirite, Sybarite; Israelite, Levite, Ammonite, Amorite, Benjamite, Canaanite, Gadite, Gileadite, Hamite, Ishmaelite, Rechabite, Reubenite, Semite, Sodomite, etc.; eremite, Ebionite, Adamite, Jacobite, Marcionite, Maronite, Azymite, Monophysite, Anthropomorphite, Fatimite, etc.b. In words of modern formation: (a) Denoting an inhabitant of a place; as Sydneyite, Claphamite, Durhamite, Ludlowite: now rare, and mostly somewhat contemptuous. (b) Denoting a disciple, follower, or adherent of a person or doctrine; as Wycliffite, Campbellite, Daleite, Glassite, Irvingite, Puseyite, Simeonite; Brontëite, Darwinite, Hugoite, Ruskinite, Shelleyite, Spencerite, Zolaite; Bryanite, Canningite, Healyite, Jacobite, Luddite, Mackinleyite, Parnellite, Peelite, † Williamite (adherent of William III). So Pre-raphaelite, Silverite, Independent Labourite, etc.These have a tendency to be depreciatory, being mostly given by opponents, and seldom acknowledged by those to whom they are applied. The following are illustrations of some of these formations:1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xviii, I am not a MacMillanite or a Russelite, or a Hamiltonian, or a Harleyite, or a Howdenite. (Note, All various species of the great genus Cameronian.)1820Lonsdale Mag. Aug. 350/1 In 1814, the Inghamite churches formed a union with the Daleite churches in Scotland.1883Athenæum 27 Jan. 116/3 Of Musset, as becomes a good Hugoite, he has nothing to say.1886Manch. Exam. 13 Jan. 3/2 Legislation which is regarded as a violation of that principle by all thorough-going Herbert Spencerites.1888Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch i, Other folk, yet more learned, declared it to be an ancient British dwelling..Mrs. Massey..was a British dwellingite.1891Daily News 5 Mar. 5/2 Swift was a Tolstoite before his day.1892Athenæum 1 Oct. 449/2 These short stories have not the attractions which the true Zolaite loveth.1895Times 8 Jan. 9/5 Ireland will see Healyites and Redmondites battling with Dillonites for the honour of representing the united will of the Irish nation.1897Westm. Gaz. 12 July 3/3 ‘The Shirley country’—as the Spen Valley is now called by Brontëites.1898Daily News 12 Jan. 6/6 The fine mass meeting of the Independent Labourites.2. a. Palæont. Used to form the names of fossil organisms, animal or vegetable; as ammonite, belemnite, calamite, dendrite, echinite, encrinite, lignite, trilobite, etc.These follow the type of Gr. βατραχίτης toadstone, etc., and were at first used in their Latin form in -ītes: see the individual words.b. Mineral. The systematic ending of the names of mineral species, comprising names of ancient origin in -ίτης, as anthracite, hæmatite, ophite, selenite, or in -ῖτις, as chlorite, hepatite, hyalite, and a vast number of modern names in which -ite is added to an element expressing colour, structure, physical characters or affinities, or to the name of a locality, discoverer, mineralogist, distinguished scientist, or other person whom the discoverer may have desired to commemorate. Examples are albite, azurite, melanite, dichroite, graphite, apatite, calcite, syenite, labradorite, leadhillite, humboldtite, wernerite, brewsterite, danaite, darwinite. Earlier names of minerals have in some cases been displaced by names in -ite, and some names with other endings as -ane, -in, etc. have been conformed to the -ite type. For names of rocks, Dana has suggested the differentiated ending -yte, founded on trachyte, as in aphanyte, dioryte, epidosyte, and the like; but this has not found universal acceptance. It is also used more widely in tektite, and hence in the names of tektites from different regions (as australite, indochinite).3. Anat. and Zool. Used to form terms denoting one of the constituent parts, segments, or joints of a body or organ; as in somite a segment of the body; so cerite, pleurite, podite, tergite, a segment of the horn or antenna, side, foot, back, etc. Cf. cephalostegite, coxopodite, ischiocerite, ischiopodite.[These forms were introduced (in French) in 1851 by H. Milne Edwards (Observations sur la squelette tégumentaire des Crustacées Décapodes, in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3, XVI. 221). They were app. first used in Eng. in 1855, by C. Spence Bate (Report Brit. Assoc. 1855, 38); but they owe their general use esp. to Huxley (Lect. on General Nat. Hist. 1857, Anat. Inverteb. Anim. 1877, etc.). (F. A. Bather, M.A., Nat. Hist. Museum, South Kensington.)]4. Chem. a. Used to form the names of some saccharine substances, glucoses, and other organic compounds, as dambonite, dulcite, erythrite, inosite, isodulcite, mannite, melampyrite, pinite, quercite, sorbite, chiefly f. the names of plants; also of explosives, as cordite, dynamite, herculite, melinite; and of commercial products, as ebonite, vulcanite, etc.[In the earlier of these the suffix was in origin apparently the same as in the preceding groups, mannite being, as it were, the distinctive constituent of manna; but in the names of explosives and other products this sense disappears, and -ite is merely a derivative.]b. In Inorganic Chemistry, -ite is the systematic termination of the names of the salts of acids denominated by adjectives in -ous; e.g. nitrite a salt of nitrous acid, sulphite a salt of sulphurous acid. This was part of the systematic nomenclature introduced by Guyton de Morveau and Lavoisier in their Nomenclature Chimique of 1787.[In this use, the suffix has no direct connexion with the Gr. -ίτης, but was suggested by, and differentiated from, the suffix -ate (-ate1 3), appropriated to salts of acids in -ic. In the words of the authors cited (Nomencl. Chimique, p. 40), these are ‘terminaisons différentes adaptées à la même racine, de la manière qui a paru le plus convenable au jugement de l'oreille.{ddd}Sulphate sera le nom générique de tous les sels formés de l'acide sulphurique.Sulphite sera le nom des sels formés de l'acide sulphureux.(p. 49) Cette distinction une fois établie nous a donné les nitrates et les nitrites, les phosphates et les phosphites, les acétates et les acétites’.]A few of the words in -ite have derivative adjs. in -itic, as Hamitic, Semitic, dendritic, encrinitic, anthracitic, hæmatitic; many of those in group 1 have adjs. in -itish, as Israelitish, Moabitish.▪ II.-ite, suffix2an ending of adjs., adapted from L. pa. pples. in -ītus, -itus, of vbs. in -īre, -ĕre, -ēre, as in ērudītus erudite, exquīsītus exquisite, compositus composite, or from the corresponding Romanic -ito, as favourite; also of ns. derived from the same or from the cognate L. ns. in -us, as appetītus appetite. Also, of verbs formed from the same ppl. stems, as expedite, unite; but from stems in -ĭt, the verbs usually end in -it, as posit, exhibit, merit; this was formerly also usual with adjs., as opposit, recondit.
-ite
1
from French -ite and directly from Latin -ita, from Greek -ites (fem. -itis), forming adjectives and nouns meaning "connected with or belonging to." Especially used in classical times to form ethnic and local designations (for example in Septuagint translations of Hebrew names in -i) and for names of gems and minerals.
2
salt suffix, from French -ite, alteration of -ate (see -ate(3)).
-ite

[Noun] state or quality:
graphite
1. suffix1 | 2. suffix2
 1 
-ite /ʌɪt/ suffix1.
ORIGIN: Corresp. to French -ite, Latin -ita (-ites), from Greek -itēs.
1.Forming nouns and adjectives denoting (a) a native of a place, a member of a people, etc., as Gibeonite, Levite, Stagirite, etc.; (b) (freq. derog.) a follower of a person, doctrine, or school, as Irvingite, Luddite, Pre-Raphaelite, Trotskyite, etc.
2.a. Palaeontology. Forming names of fossil organisms, as ammonite, belemnite, echinite, etc.b. Forming names of minerals and rocks, comprising names of ancient origin, as anthracite, chlorite, haematite, etc., and many mod. formations, as andesite, brewsterite, cobaltite, carbonatite, labradorite, etc. (often superseding names in -ine etc.).c. Forming names of tektites from different regions, as australite, indochinite, etc.
3.Anatomy & Zoology. Forming names of constituent parts, segments, or joints of a body or organ, as coxopodite, somite, etc.
4.Chemistry.a. Forming names of substances, esp. explosives and other commercial products, as cordite, dynamite, ebonite, vulcanite, etc., and (formerly) sugars and other polyhydric compounds, as dulcite, inosite, mannite, etc. (often superseded by names in -itol).b. Forming names of salts or esters of acids ending in -ous, as nitrite, sulphite, etc.
 2 
-ite /ʌɪt/ suffix2.
ORIGIN: from Latin -itus, pa. ppl ending of verbs in -ire, -ere, or from corresp. Proto-Romance -ito.
In adjectives, nouns, and verbs derived from Latin or Romance, as erudite, composite, favourite; appetite; expedite, unite.
-ite1
suffix forming nouns.
a native or inhabitant of _____: Canaanite = a native or inhabitant of Canaan.
a descendant of _____: Israelite = a descendant of Israel.
a follower or supporter of _____: Trotskyite = a follower or supporter of Leon Trotsky.
resembling, derived from, or having the property of _____: Ebonite = resembling ebony.
a mineral species, or a rock substance, as in hematite, humboldtite.
a fossil, as in trilobite, lignite.
a segment of a part of a body, as in dendrite.
a person associated with, as in laborite.
a substance of organic origin; an explosive; a commercial product, as in dynamite, Bakelite.
[< French -ite (< Latin -īta, -ītēs) or < Latin (< Greek -ítēs), or directly < Greek]
-ite2
suffix forming nouns. ester or salt of an acid whose name ends in -ous, as in phosphite, sulfite, nitrite.
[< French -ite, alteration of -ate -ate2]
-ite
I. \ˌīt, usu ˌīd.+V\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French & Latin; Old French, from Latin -ita, -ites, from Greek -itēs (n. & adjective suffix)
1.
 a. : native : inhabitant : resident
  < Gothamite >
  < Brooklynite >
  < New Hampshirite >
  : occupant : dweller
  < flatite >
  < trailerite >
 b. : descendant : offspring
  < Adamite >
 c.
  (1) : adherent : follower : supporter
   < Jacobite >
   : advocate
   < Darwinite >
   : devotee
   < Browningite >
  (2) : member of a (specified) group or organization or movement
   < Puseyite >
2.
 a.
  (1) : substance produced through some (specified) process
   < anabolite >
   < catabolite >
  (2) : commercially manufactured product
   < ebonite >
   < lyddite >
   < vulcanite >
 b. : -itol — especially in commercial names
  < dulcite >
3. [New Latin -ites, from Latin] : fossil
 < corallite >
 < filicite >
4. : mineral
 < erythrite >
: rock
 < chromitite >
5. [French, from Latin -ita, -ites] : segment or constituent part of a body or of a bodily part
 < somite >
 < dendrite >
II. noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: French, alteration of -ate (from New Latin -atum) — more at -ate
: salt or ester of an acid with a name ending in -ous
 < nitrite >
 < sulfite >

-ite 1

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /-aɪt/

    • Suffix

    1. sometimes pejorative Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
      Adamsite, Campbellite, Jacobite, laborite, Mansonite, Reaganite, Thatcherite
    2. Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
      Ephraimite, Hamite, Japhetite, Lamanite
      1830, Joseph Smith, Book of Mormon, translation of original by Mormon, 4 Nephi 1:17:
      There were no robbers, nor murderers, neither were there Lamanites, nor any manner of -ites; but they were in one, the children of Christ, and heirs to the kingdom of God.
    3. chiefly US Used to form demonyms.
      Brooklynite, Jerusalemite, New Jerseyite, Seattleite, Sydneyite, Wyomingite
    4. Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.
      andalusite, anorthosite, anthracite, erythrite, forsterite, graphite, hawleyite, titanite
    5. Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
      ammonite, belemnite
    6. biology Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.
      dendrite, somite
    7. Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
      Bakelite, cordite, dynamite, ebonite, metabolite, vulcanite
    8. chemistry Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.
      bromite, chlorite, iodite, phosphite, sulfite

    Etymology

    Via Old French, from Latin -ites

    -ite 2

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) either IPA: /-aɪt/ or IPA: /-ɪt/

    • Suffix

    1. forming adjectives

    Etymology

    From Latin past participles in -ītus, of verbs in -īre, -ĕre, -ēre, partly via Old French.

    Derived terms

  • appetite
  • composite
  • erudite
  • expedite
  • exquisite
  • favourite
  • unite

    • See also

    English words suffixed with -ite


    后缀：-ite ①[名词后缀]

    表示人

    suburbanite 郊区居民

    socialite 社会名流，名人

    Tokyoite 东京市民

    Muscovite 莫斯科人

    computerite 计算机人员

    Yemenite 也门人

    Islamite 伊斯兰教徒

    Israelite 以色列人

    Labourite 工党赏员

    favorite 喜爱的人

    bedlamite 精神病人

    negroite 同情黑人者

    ②[形容词后缀]

    表示具有...性质的

    partite 分成若干部分的

    composite 合成的

    opposite 对立的，对面的

    exquisite 精美的，精致的

    definite 明确的，一定的

    polite 文雅的

    erudite 博学的

    ③[动词后缀]

    表示做...、作成...

    unite 联合，统一

    expedite 加快，促进

    ignite 点燃，点火

    词根词缀：-ite

    【来源及含义】Greek: a suffix; one connected with, inhabitant of [also used to indicate chemicals, minerals, etc.]

    【同源单词】adelpholite, adelphoparasite, aerolite, albite, amphibiolite, anthropolite
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