-ite

¹-ite

noun suffix

Definition of -ITE

1

a : native : resident <Brooklynite> b : descendant <Ephraimite> c : adherent : follower <Jacobite> <Puseyite>

2

a (1) : product <metabolite> (2) : commercially manufactured product <ebonite> b : -itol <mannite>

3

[New Latin -ites, from Latin] : fossil <ammonite>

4

: mineral <erythrite> : rock <anorthosite>

5

[French, from Latin -ita, -ites] : segment or constituent part of a body or of a bodily part <somite> <dendrite>

Origin of -ITE

from Latin -ita, -ites, from Greek -itēs