Suffix
Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
Usage- Derogatory
- morpheme
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Adamsite, Campbellite, Jacobite, laborite, Mansonite, Reaganite, Thatcherite
Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
Usage- morpheme
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Cainite, Ephraimite, Hamite, Japhetite, Lamanite
More examples (1)
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.
Used to form demonyms.
Usage- India
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Brooklynite, Delhiite, Jerusalemite, Keralite, Kilgoreite, New Jerseyite, Seattleite, Seoulite, Sydneyite, Wisconsinite, Wyomingite; also see ashramite, hostelite
Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.
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andalusite, anorthosite, anthracite, erythrite, forsterite, graphite, hawleyite, titanite
Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
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ammonite, belemnite
Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.
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dendrite, somite
Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
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Bakelite, cordite, dynamite, ebonite, metabolite, vulcanite
Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.
Usage- morpheme
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bromite, chlorite, iodite, phosphite, sulfite
Used to form nouns for kinds, mostly from bases of Ancient Greek origin.
Usage- morpheme
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sporozoite, epizoite, troglobite, lychnobite
Suffix
Forms adjectives.
Usage- morpheme