English Dictionary

-ite

IPA（発音記号）

/-aɪt/

接尾辞

軽蔑的 形態素 時々 インド アメリカ英語

(sometimes derogatory) Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.

日本語の意味

〜派を示す接尾辞（特定の人物、思想、教義、運動等の信奉者や支持者を表す。時として軽蔑的な意味合いを含む）

The suffix -ite often turns a leader's name into a derogatory label for their followers.

支持者を表す名詞を作る接尾辞「〜派」は、しばしば指導者の名前をその支持者に対する侮蔑的な呼び名に変えてしまう。

意味（1）

(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

意味（2）

Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.

Cainite, Ephraimite, Hamite, Japhetite, Lamanite

意味（3）

(chiefly US, India) Used to form demonyms.

Brooklynite, Delhiite, Jerusalemite, Keralite, New Jerseyite, Seattleite, Sydneyite, Wisconsinite, Wyomingite; also see ashramite, hostelite

意味（4）

Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.

andalusite, anorthosite, anthracite, erythrite, forsterite, graphite, hawleyite, titanite

意味（5）

Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.

ammonite, belemnite

意味（6）

(biology) Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.

dendrite, somite

意味（7）

Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.

Bakelite, cordite, dynamite, ebonite, metabolite, vulcanite

意味（8）

(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