1. A native of: Brook-lynite.
2. An adherent of: Darwinite.
3. A descendant of: Israelite.
4. Mineral. A rock or mineral: graphite.
5. Zool. A part of the body or of an organ: somite.
6. Paleontol. A fossil: ammonite.
7. Like; resembling; related to: often used in the names of commercial products: dynamite. [<F -ite <L -ita <Gk. -itēs]

Chem.
A salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ous: sulfite. [<F -ite; arbitrarily coined (1787) from -ate -ATE³]

Used in adjectives and verbs formed on the past participial stems of Latin verbs in the second, third, and fourth conjugations: finite, unite. [<L -itus]