Where does “-ita” come from?

-ita (Polish) comes from Latin -ītus, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

-ita (Polish): used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.; -ite

Definitions

  1. used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.; -ite

Ancestry of “-ita”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ītusUsed to form adjectives
2Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “-ita”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós →Every word from Latin -ītus →