Saite

American  

[sey-ahyt] / ˈseɪ aɪt /

noun

1. a native or citizen of Saïs.

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adjective

1. Also Saitic of or relating to Saïs or its inhabitants.

2. of or relating to the period 663–525 b.c., when the Pharaohs ruled at Saïs.

Saite British  

/ ˈseɪaɪt /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Saïs

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Etymology

Origin of Saite

1670–80; < Latin Saītēs < Greek Saī́tēs. See Saïs, -ite ¹

Example Sentences

“We are standing before a goldmine of information,” said Dr Ramadan Badry Hussein, director of the Saqqara Saite Tombs Project which oversees the excavation.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2018

Note.—I stopped for five hours at Kafr-es-Zaiat on the railway journey from Alexandria to Cairo to examine a site, which may be the Serapeum of the Saite nome.

From El Kab by Quibell, James Edward

According to Manetho, the Tanites of the twenty-third dynasty were followed by the twenty-fourth dynasty, consisting of a single Saite, Bokkhoris, whom the monuments call Bak-n-ran-f.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

And we are also told that Eudoxus was a disciple of Chnouphis the Memphite, Solo of Sonchis the Saite, and Pythagoras of Oinuphis the Heliopolite.

From Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir