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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromλυτός“loosed”
- English today-lyte
Borrowed from Ancient Greek λυτός (lutós, “loosed”), verbal adjective of λύειν (lúein, “to unfasten, loose, loosen, untie”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
-lyte
Today it means: Word-forming element used in making nouns corresponding to nouns in -lysis and adjectives in -lytic. Full definition →
Ancient Greek λυτός