| 释义 |
-ite1/ait/suffix forming nouns meaning ‘a person or thing connected with’ 构成名词，表示“有关联的人或物” : 1 in names of persons 人的名称 : a as natives of a country (Israelite 以色列人) 某国的居民 b often derog. as followers of a movement etc. (pre-Raphaelite 拉斐尔之前的意大利画家； Trotskyite 托洛茨基分子) [常贬]…运动等的追随者 2 in names of things 事物名称 : a fossil organisms (ammonite 菊石) 化石生物体 b minerals (graphite 石墨) 矿石 c constituent parts of a body or organ (somite 体节) 身体的组成部分或器官 d explosives (dynamite 达纳炸药) 爆炸物 e commercial products (ebonite 硬橡胶; vulcanite 硬质橡胶) 商品 f salts of acids having names in -ous (nitrite 亚硝酸盐; sulphite 亚硫酸盐) 带 -ous 的酸盐类 [from or suggested by French -ite, via Latin -ita from Greek -itēs] |