–ITE Definition & Meaning

-ite

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 ).

-ite

a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from adjectives, and from some verbs.
composite; opposite; erudite; requisite.

-ite

suffix

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

-ite

suffix

indicating a salt or ester of an acid having a name ending in -ous
a nitrite is a salt of nitrous acid

–i�ٱ�

A suffix used to form the names of minerals, such as hematite and malachite.
A suffix used to form the name of a salt or ester of a specified acid whose name ends in –o�ܲ�. Such salts or esters have one oxygen atom fewer than corresponding salts or esters with names ending in –a�ٱ�. For example, a nitrite is a salt of nitrous acid and contains the group NO ₂, while a nitrate contains NO ₃.
Compare –a�ٱ�

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of –i�ٱ�¹

Middle English < Latin -ita < Greek -��ŧ��; often directly < Greek; in some words representing French -ite, German -it, etc. < Latin < Greek, as above

Origin of –i�ٱ�²

< Latin -itus or -ī�ٳܲ� past participle suffix

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of –i�ٱ�¹

via Latin -ita from Greek -��ŧ�� or directly from Greek

Origin of –i�ٱ�²

from French, arbitrary alteration of _-ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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Navy Fifth Fleet, close U.S. relations are a vital bulwark against Iran, a vast Muslim Shi'ite nation across the Gulf that Manama has long blamed for stirring up its own majority Shi'ite population against Bahrain's Sunni monarchy.

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Yet Haniyeh, a Sunni Muslim, has had a major hand building up Hamas' fighting capacity, partly by nurturing relations with Shi'ite Muslim Iran, which makes no secret of its moral and material support for the group.

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It said in a statement that the strikes were a violation of the advisory role of international forces in Iraq to fight the remnants of the Islamic State militant group - a coalition that a number of factions in Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim ruling coalition say they want ousted.

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Yemen erupted in civil war after the Houthis, members of the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, seized the capital Sanaa in 2014.

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Under the governing system in place since the post-Saddam Hussein constitution was adopted in 2005, the prime minister is a member of the Shi'ite Muslim majority, the speaker is a Sunni and the largely ceremonial role of president is held by a Kurd.

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