Standard Lemma guide

-ite

suffix · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /-aɪt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /-ɪt/

1

suffix

Meaning 1

Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, morpheme, sometimes

Examples

  • Adamsite, Campbellite, Jacobite, laborite, Mansonite, Reaganite, Thatcherite

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

suffix

Meaning 2

Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Examples

  • Cainite, Ephraimite, Hamite, Japhetite, Lamanite

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

suffix

Meaning 3

Used to form demonyms.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: India, US, morpheme

Examples

  • Brooklynite, Delhiite, Jerusalemite, Keralite, Kilgoreite, New Jerseyite, Seattleite, Seoulite, Sydneyite, Wisconsinite, Wyomingite; also see ashramite, hostelite

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

suffix

Meaning 4

Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Examples

  • andalusite, anorthosite, anthracite, erythrite, forsterite, graphite, hawleyite, titanite

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

suffix

Meaning 5

Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Examples

  • ammonite, belemnite

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

suffix

Meaning 6

Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Examples

  • dendrite, somite

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

suffix

Meaning 7

Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Examples

  • Bakelite, cordite, dynamite, ebonite, metabolite, vulcanite

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

suffix

Meaning 8

Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Examples

  • bromite, chlorite, iodite, phosphite, sulfite

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

suffix

Meaning 9

Used to form nouns for kinds, mostly from bases of Ancient Greek origin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme, rare

Examples

  • sporozoite, epizoite, troglobite, lychnobite

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

suffix

Meaning 10

Forms adjectives.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

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).

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

Across languages

Translations

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: -lainen — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Hebrew: ־ִי — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Interlingua: -ite — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Interlingua: -ita — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Portuguese: -ita — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Portuguese: -ista — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Russian: -ист (-ist) — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Russian: -истка (-istka) — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Spanish: -ita — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Swedish: -it — a follower or adherent of a specified person
  • Finnish: -lainen — a descendant of a specified historical person
  • Hebrew: ־ִי — a descendant of a specified historical person
  • Hungarian: -ita — a descendant of a specified historical person
  • Interlingua: -ita — a descendant of a specified historical person
  • Polish: -anin — a descendant of a specified historical person
  • Polish: -ita — a descendant of a specified historical person
  • Portuguese: -ita — a descendant of a specified historical person
  • Finnish: -iitti — part of the body or part of an organ of the body
  • Spanish: -ita — part of the body or part of an organ of the body
  • Afrikaans: -iet — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Azerbaijani: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Belarusian: -ыт (-yt) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Bulgarian: -ит (-it) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Catalan: -ita — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Chinese Mandarin: 礦 /矿 (kuàng) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Chinese Mandarin: 石 (shí) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Czech: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Danish: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Dutch: -iet — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Esperanto: -ito — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Estonian: -iit — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Finnish: -iitti — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • French: -ite — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Galician: -ita — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • German: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Greek: -ίτης (-ítis) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Hebrew: ־יט (-ít) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Hungarian: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Indonesian: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Interlingua: -ite — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Irish: -ít — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Japanese: 砿 (kō) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Japanese: 石 (seki) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Korean: 석 (seok) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Latvian: -īts — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Lithuanian: -itas — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -itt — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: -itt — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Persian: -یت (-it) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Polish: -yt — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Polish: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Portuguese: -ite — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Portuguese: -ita — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Portuguese: -ito — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Romanian: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Russian: -ит (-it) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Serbo-Croatian: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Serbo-Croatian: -ит — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Slovak: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Slovene: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Spanish: -ita — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Spanish: -ito — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Swedish: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Turkish: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Ukrainian: -ит (-yt) — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Uzbek: -it — used to form names of minerals and rocks
  • Finnish: -lainen — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Greenlandic: -mioq — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Hebrew: ־ִי — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Hungarian: -i — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Interlingua: -ita — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Portuguese: -ita — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Russian: -ин (-in) — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Spanish: -ita — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Swedish: -it — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Turkish: -li — a native or resident of a specified place
  • Catalan: -it — a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous
  • Finnish: -iitti — a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous
  • French: -ite — a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous
  • Hungarian: -it — a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous
  • Māori: pākati — a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous
  • Polish: -yn — a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous
  • Polish: -in — a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous
  • Spanish: -ito — a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous