# -ite
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /-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
* (rare) Used to form nouns for kinds, mostly from bases of Ancient Greek origin.
    sporozoite, epizoite, troglobite, lychnobite

##### Translations
### 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: /-aɪt/ or IPA: /-ɪt/

#### Suffix

-ite
* Forms adjectives.

#### See also
### Anagrams

* EIT, ETI, TEI, tie

## Afar
### Etymology

Akin to Saho -ite.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /-iˈte/ [-ɪˈtɛ]

### Suffix

-ité
* Used to form captative verbs from nouns.

#### Derived terms
### 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: /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: /ˈite/

### Suffix

-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
### 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

#### See also

* -osi

### Anagrams

* tie', tiè

## Latin
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Suffix

-ītē
* ablative/vocative singular of -ītēs

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /iː.te/, [iːt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /i.te/, [it̪e]

#### Suffix

-īte
* ablative/vocative masculine singular of -ītus

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /i.te/, [ɪt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /i.te/, [it̪e]

#### Suffix

-ite
* ablative/vocative masculine singular of -itus

## 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: /-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.

#### Descendants

* English: -ity
* Scots: -ity, -eety

#### References

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈi.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈi.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈi.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /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