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• -istics

  a combination of -ist and -ics.

• -ite

  a suffix of nouns denoting especially persons -ssociated with a place, tribe, leader, doctrine, system, etc. (campbellite; israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, especially salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body […]

• -itic

  a combination of -ite1. and -ic, used to form adjectives from nouns ending in -ite: semitic.

• -ition

  a compound suffix of nouns, being -tion with a preceding original or formative vowel, or, in other words, a combination of -ite2. and -ion: expedition; extradition.

• -itious

  a compound suffix occurring in adjectives of latin origin (advent-tious) and with adjectives, formed in latin or english, -ssociated with nouns ending in -ition (ambitious; expeditious). compare -ite2 , -ous. -itious suffix having the nature of; characterized by nutritious, suppositious word origin

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