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Hit⋅tite

  [hit-ahyt]
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–noun
1. a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c.
2. an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, preserved in cuneiform inscriptions of the second millennium b.c. Compare Hieroglyphic Hittite.
–adjective
3. of, pertaining to, or belonging to the Hittites or their language.
Origin:
1600–10; < Heb ḥitt(īm) Hittite (cf. Hittite Khatti) + -ite 1
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Hit·tite   (hĭt'īt')   
n.  

  1. A member of an ancient people living in Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000-1200 B.C.

  2. The Indo-European language of the Hittites.

adj.  Of or relating to the Hittites, their language, or their culture.

[From Hebrew ḥittî, from Akkadian ḫatti, from Hittite Hatti, land of the Hattians (indigenous inhabitants of Anatolia), of Proto-Hattic (language of the Hattians) origin.]
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Hittite 
1608, "of or pertaining to an Indo-European people whose empire (c.1900-700 B.C.E.) covered much of modern Turkey and Syria," from Heb. Hitti "Hittite" (pl. Hittim), from Hitt. Hatti. The biblical use (cf. Gen. xv.20, etc.) refers to Canaanite or Syrian tribes that were probably genuine offshoots of the Hittites. They were called khita or kheta in Egyptian.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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