-ite

Significado (Inglés)

1. Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
2. Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
3. Used to form demonyms.
4. Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.
5. Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
6. Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.
7. Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
8. Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.

Sinónimos

faction

-ous

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/-aɪt/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

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