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-ite1 definition

-ite (īt)

  1. a native, inhabitant, or citizen of Brooklynite
  2. a descendant from or offspring of Israelite
  3. an adherent of, believer in, or member of laborite
  4. a product, esp. a commercially manufactured one Lucite, dynamite, vulcanite
  5. a fossil ammonite
  6. a part of a body or bodily organ somite

  7. Etymology: Fr, arbitrary alteration of -ate, -ate

    a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous nitrite, sulfite
  8. a (specified) mineral or rock anthracite, dolomite

Etymology: ME < OFr or L or Gr: OFr -ite < L -ita, -ites < Gr -itēs, fem. -itis

-ite2 definition

-ite (īt; it)

forming adjectives, nouns, and verbs finite

Etymology: L -itus, ending of some past participles

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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