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What (who) is -ite - definition

LATIN IDIOM
Ite Missa Est; Ite Missa est; Ita missa est; Ite missa est
  • "Ite, missa est" sung by the [[deacon]] at a [[Solemn Mass]]

-ite      
-ite1
¦ suffix
1. forming names denoting natives of a country: Israelite.
often derogatory denoting followers of a movement: Luddite.
2. used in scientific and technical terms:
forming names of minerals or fossil organisms: ammonite.
forming names of constituent parts of a body or organ: somite.
forming names of explosives and other commercial products: dynamite.
Chemistry forming names of salts or esters of acids ending in -ous: sulphite.
Origin
from Fr. -ite, via L. -ita from Gk ites.
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-ite2
¦ suffix
1. forming adjectives such as composite.
2. forming nouns such as appetite.
3. forming verbs such as unite.
Origin
from L. -itus, past participle of verbs ending in -ere and -ire.
-ite      
·- A suffix used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end in -ous; as, sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, from nitrous acid, ·etc.
II. -ite ·- A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite.
III. -ite ·- A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its use in writing.
Ite, missa est         
Ite, missa est are the concluding Latin words addressed to the people in the Mass of the Roman Rite, as well as the Lutheran Divine Service. Until the reforms of 1962, at Masses without the Gloria, Benedicamus Domino was said instead.

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Ite, missa est

Ite, missa est are the concluding Latin words addressed to the people in the Mass of the Roman Rite, as well as the Lutheran Divine Service. Until the reforms of 1962, at Masses without the Gloria, Benedicamus Domino was said instead. The response of the people (or, in the Tridentine Mass, of the servers at Low Mass, the choir at Solemn Mass) is Deo gratias ("thanks be to God").

Examples of use of -ite
1. In fact, the base chosen for the Shiite south at Tallil remains the same.
2. Lily Allen and her trendy–ite crew were on the mother of all benders last night.
3. Bashkirov‘s cousin Nikolai Korovin told the paper that he worked at ITE Group.
4. If many of Blair‘s critics in the Labour Party and unions complain that his policies are Thatcherite, they might more accurately describe them as IEA–ite.
5. An ITE Group spokesman, Richard Wightman, said Friday that there had been an incident and that it had gone to the authorities.