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-ite 1
suff.
1. Native or resident of: New Jerseyite.
2.
a. Descendant of: Levite.
b. Adherent or follower of: Luddite.
3. A part of an organ, body, or bodily part: somite.
4.
a. Rock; mineral: graphite.
b. Fossil: trilobite.
5.
a. Product: metabolite.
b. A commercial product: ebonite.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -ts, -ta, from Greek -ts.]

-ite 2
suff.
A salt or ester of an acid named with an adjective ending in -ous: sulfite.

[Alteration of -ate.]

-ite1
suffix forming nouns
1. a native or inhabitant of Israelite
2. a follower or advocate of; a member or supporter of a group Luddite labourite
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) indicating a division of a body or organ somite
4. (Earth Sciences / Geological Science) indicating a mineral or rock nephrite peridotite
5. (Business / Commerce) indicating a commercial product vulcanite
[via Latin -ita from Greek -itēs or directly from Greek]

-ite2
suffix forming nouns
(Chemistry) indicating a salt or ester of an acid having a name ending in -ous a nitrite is a salt of nitrous acid
[from French, arbitrary alteration of -ate1]

-ite
1. A suffix used to form the names of minerals, such as hematite and malachite.
2. A suffix used to form the name of a salt or ester of a specified acid whose name ends in -ous. Such salts or esters have one oxygen atom fewer than corresponding salts or esters with names ending in -ate. For example, a nitrite is a salt of nitrous acid and contains the group NO2, while a nitrate contains NO3. Compare -ate.
Translations
-ite
n suf (= follower of)-anhänger(in) m(f); BlairiteBlair-Anhänger(in) m(f)


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