-ite
-ite İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
-ite anlamları
- () A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite.
- () A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its use in writing.
- () A suffix used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end in -ous; as, sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, from nitrous acid, etc.
-ite tanım:
Kelime: -iteİşlev: noun suffix
Kökeni: Middle English, from Old French & Latin; Old French, from Latin -ita, -ites, from Greek -itEs
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
