-ite

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ite"

English

Etymology 1

From French -ite, from Old French, from Latin -ītēs, from Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

(General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /-aɪt/
Audio (US): (file)

Suffix

-ite

(sometimes derogatory) Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
Adamsite, Campbellite, Jacobite, laborite, Mansonite, Reaganite, Thatcherite
Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
Cainite, 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.
(chiefly US, India) Used to form demonyms.
Brooklynite, Delhiite, Jerusalemite, Keralite, New Jerseyite, Seattleite, Seoulite, Sydneyite, Wisconsinite, Wyomingite; also see ashramite, hostelite
Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.
andalusite, anorthosite, anthracite, erythrite, forsterite, graphite, hawleyite, titanite
Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
ammonite, belemnite
(biology) Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.
dendrite, somite
Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
Bakelite, cordite, dynamite, ebonite, metabolite, vulcanite
(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

Translations

a follower or adherent of a specified person

Finnish: -lainen (fi)
Interlingua: -ite, -ita m
Portuguese: -ita (pt) m or f, -ista (pt) m or f
Russian: -ист (ru) m (-ist), -истка f (-istka)
Spanish: -ita (es)
Swedish: -it (sv)

a descendant of a specified historical person

Finnish: -lainen (fi)
Hungarian: -ita
Interlingua: -ita
Polish: -anin (pl) m, -ita m
Portuguese: -ita (pt) m or f

part of the body or part of an organ of the body

Finnish: -iitti
Spanish: -ita (es)

used to form names of minerals and rocks

Afrikaans: -iet
Azerbaijani: -it
Belarusian: -ыт m (-yt)
Bulgarian: -ит m (-it)
Catalan: -ita (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 礦／矿 (zh) (kuàng), 石 (zh) (shí)
Czech: -it m
Danish: -it c
Dutch: -iet (nl) n
Esperanto: -ito (eo)
Estonian: -iit
Finnish: -iitti
French: -ite (fr) f
Galician: -ita (gl) f
German: -it (de) m
Greek: -ίτης (el) m (-ítis)
Hebrew: ־יט m (-ít)
Hungarian: -it (hu)
Indonesian: -it
Interlingua: -ite
Irish: -ít f
Japanese: 砿 (ja) (kō), 石 (ja) (seki)
Korean: 석 (ko) (seok)
Latvian: -īts m
Lithuanian: -itas m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: -itt m

Nynorsk: -itt m
Persian: -یت (-it)
Polish: -yt (pl) m, -it m
Portuguese: -ite (pt) f, -ita (pt) f, -ito (pt)
Romanian: -it m
Russian: -ит (ru) m (-it)
Serbo-Croatian: -it m, -ит m
Slovak: -it m
Slovene: -it m
Spanish: -ita (es) (minerals), -ito (es) (rocks)
Swedish: -it (sv) c
Turkish: -it
Ukrainian: -ит m (-yt)
Uzbek: -it

a native or resident of a specified place

Finnish: -lainen (fi)
Greenlandic: -mioq
Hungarian: -i (hu)
Interlingua: -ita
Portuguese: -ita (pt) m or f
Spanish: -ita (es)
Swedish: -it (sv)
Turkish: -li (tr)

a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous

Catalan: -it (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: -iitti
French: -ite (fr)
Hungarian: -it (hu)
Polish: -yn (pl) m, -in (pl) m
Spanish: -ito (es)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Suffix

-ite

Forms adjectives.

Anagrams

EIT, ETI, TEI, tie

Afar

Etymology

Akin to Saho -ite.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /-iˈte/ [-ɪˈtɛ]

Suffix

-ité

Used to form captative verbs from nouns.

Derived terms

Afar terms suffixed with -ite

References

E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 242

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin -ītēs, from Ancient Greek -ίτης (-ítēs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /it/

Suffix

-ite f (plural -ites)

(medicine) -itis
‎alvéole (“alveolus”) + ‎-ite → ‎alvéolite (“alveolitis”)
(mineralogy) -ite
‎pyro- (“pyro-”) + ‎-ite → ‎pyrite (“pyrite”)

Suffix

-ite m (plural -ites)

(chemistry) -ite
‎arsén(ique) (“arsenic”) + ‎-ite → ‎arsénite (“arsenite”)

Suffix

-ite m or f by sense (plural -ites)

-ite (follower of someone or something)
‎Adam (“Adam”) + ‎-ite → ‎adamite (“Adamite”)

‎Ali (“Ali”) + ‎-ite → ‎alaouite (“Alawite”)
-ite (person from a given location, especially in a historical context)
‎Israël (“Israel”) + ‎-ite → ‎Israélite (“Israelite”)

Suffix

-ite (plural -ites)

-ite (relating to following someone or something)
‎Anaximandre (“Anaximander”) + ‎-ite → ‎anaximandrite (“Anaximanderian”)
-ite (relating to a given location, especially in a historical context)
‎Israël (“Israel”) + ‎-ite → ‎israélite (“Israelite”)

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from English -ite, French -ite, Italian -ita, Portuguese -ita/Spanish -ita, all ultimately from Latin -īta, , from Ancient Greek -ίτης (-ítēs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈite/

Suffix

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-ite

forms nouns from nouns, denoting a rock or mineral; -ite
‎ligno (“wood”) + ‎-ite → ‎lignite (“lignite”)

‎meteoro (“meteor”) + ‎-ite → ‎meteorite (“meteorite”)

‎Andalusia (“Andalusia”) + ‎-ite → ‎andalusite (“andalusite”)

Usage notes

This suffix is not to be confused with -ita (“inhabitant, adherent”).

Derived terms

Category Interlingua terms suffixed with -ite not found

References

Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

Italian

Suffix

-ite f (plural -iti)

used with a stem to form the feminine plural past participle of regular -ire verbs
used with a stem to form the second-person plural present and imperative of regular -ire verbs
(mineralogy) -ite
(chemistry) -ite
(pathology) -itis

Derived terms

Italian terms suffixed with -ite

Anagrams

tie', tiè

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.teː/, [ˈiːt̪eː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.te/, [ˈiːt̪e]

Suffix

-ītē

ablative/vocative singular of -ītēs

Middle English

Alternative forms

-ete, -etee, -itee, -iteþ, -itie, -itye, -yte, -ytee, -ytie, -ythe, -ytye

Etymology

From Old French -ite, -ete, from Latin -itās, -itātem; compare -te.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /-iˈteː/, /-iteː/

Suffix

-ite

Synonym of -te

Usage notes

Syncope sometimes results in the replacement of -ite with -te. For instance, trinte is sometimes found for trinite (“Trinity”).
Conversely, learned influence may sometimes result in -te with -ite, especially when the word goes back to a Latin original with -itās. This is exemplified by the replacement of personalte (“personality”) with personalite in later Middle English (compare Latin persōnālitās).
As in modern English, -ite tends to attract stress to the antepenultimate syllable, while -te leaves stress where it was on the root.

Derived terms

Middle English terms suffixed with -ite

Descendants

English: -ity
Scots: -ity, -eety

References

“-tẹ̄, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.te/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tɨ/

Suffix

-ite f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ites)

(pathology) -itis (forms the names of diseases characterised by inflammation)
(geology, Portugal) -ite (forms the names of rocks and minerals)
Synonyms: (Brazil) -ita, (less common) -ito