What is the meaning of -ite?

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

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

Used to form demonyms.

Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.

Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.

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

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

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

Forms adjectives.

Used to form captative verbs from nouns.

-ite (follower of someone or something)

-ite (person from a given location, especially in a historical context)

-ite (relating to following someone or something)

-ite (relating to a given location, especially in a historical context)

forms nouns from nouns, denoting a rock or mineral; -ite

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

Synonym of -te

-itis (forms the names of diseases characterised by inflammation)

-ite (forms the names of rocks and minerals)

Source: wiktionary.org

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