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-ite suffix

  /-aɪt/
  • (sometimes, pejorative) Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
  • Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
  • Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
  • (chemistry) Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.
 -it

it pronoun

  /ɘt/ , /ət/ , /ɪt/ , [ɪt] , [ɪ̈t] , [ɪ̈ʔ]
  • The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
  • The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
  • The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
 det, den
  • The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
 den, det

it noun

  /ɘt/ , /ət/ , /ɪt/ , [ɪt] , [ɪ̈t] , [ɪ̈ʔ]
  • The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
 datten

its pronoun

  /ɪts/
  • The one (or ones) belonging to it. [from 17th c.]
 dess

its determiner

  /ɪts/
  • Belonging to it. [from 16th c.]
 dess
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