[-ite] n suffix [ME, fr. OF & L; OF, fr. L -ita, -ites, fr. Gk -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 [NL -ites, fr. L]: fossil "ammonite"
4: mineral "erythrite": rock "anorthosite"
5. [F, fr. L -ita, -ites]: segment or constituent part of a body or of a bodily part "somite" "dendrite"
[2]-ite n suffix [F, alter. of -ate -ate, fr. NL -atum]: salt or ester of an acid with a name ending in -ous "nitrite"