satellite

From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsætəlaɪt/

satellite (plural satellites)

1. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. [from 17th c.]

   The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.

   A spent upper stage is a derelict satellite.

2. A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth. [from 20th c.]

   Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.

3. A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body. [from 19th c.]
4. (now rare) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     We read in the Bible, that Nicanor the persecutor of Gods Law […] sent his Satellites to apprehend the good old man Rasias […].

   • 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock, p.348:

     […] he would nevertheless have a better bargain of this tall satellite if they settled the debate betwixt them in the forest […]. Betwixt anxiety, therefore, vexation, and anger, Charles faced suddenly round on his pursuer […].

   • 1948, Willard E. Hawkins, The Technique of Fiction: A Basic Course in Story Writing, p.169:

     The unnamed chronicler in his Dupin stories was the first Dr. Watson type of satellite—a narrator who accompanies the detective on his exploits, exclaims over his brilliance […].

5. (colloquial, uncountable) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology. [from 20th c.]

   Do you have satellite at your house?

6. (grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".

• The man-made telecommunication objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon.

• (artificial orbital body): sat (abbreviation)

• intersatellite

• (moon of Earth) Luna/‎Moon/‎moon ^[edit]
• (moons of Mars) Phobos, Deimos
• (moons of Jupiter) Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Themisto, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Euporie, Thelxinoe, Euanthe, Helike, Orthosie, Iocaste, Praxidike, Harpalyke, Mneme, Hermippe, Thyone, Ananke, Herse, Aitne, Kale, Taygete, Chaldene, Erinome, Aoede, Kallichore, Kalyke, Carme, Callirrhoe, Eurydome, Pasithee, Kore, Cyllene, Eukelade, Pasiphaë, Hegemone, Arche, Isonoe, Sinope, Sponde, Autonoe, Megaclite
• (moons of Saturn) Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Aegaeon, Mimas, Methone, Anthe, Pallene, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Polydeuces, Rhea, Titan, Hyperyon, Iapetus, Kiviuq, Ijiraq, Phoebe, Paaliaq, Skathi, Albiorix, Bebhionn, Erriapus, Skoll, Siamaq, Tarqeq, Greip, Hyrrokin, Jarnsaxa, Tarvos, Mundilfari, Bergelmir, Narvi, Suttungr, Hati, Farbauti, Thrymr, Aegir, Bestla, Fenrir, Surtur, Kari, Ymir, Loge, Fornjot
• (moons of Uranus) Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda, Perdita, Puck, Mab, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Francisco, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret, Prospero, Setebos, Ferdinand
• (moons of Neptune) Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Halimede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe, Neso
• (moons of Pluto) Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra
• (moons of Haumea) Namaka, Hiʻiaka
• (moons of Eris) Dysnomia

• telestial

Borrowed from Latin satellitem (accusative singular of satelles).

• IPA^(key): /sa.tɛ.lit/, /sa.te.lit/

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satellite m (plural satellites)

1. satellite (moon or other celestial body)
2. satellite (man-made apparatus)

satellite (plural satellites)

1. satellite, from or relating to a satellite (man-made apparatus)
   • 2013, Jean-Noël Marien, Émilien Dubiez, Dominique Louppe, Adélaïde Larzillière, Quand la ville mange la forêt: les défis du bois-énergie en Afrique centrale, page 45, ISBN 2759219801

     Le couvert végétal du basin d’approvisionnement en bois-énergie de la ville de Kinshasa a été cartographié par images satellites

• image satellite

• satellisation
• satelliser

• “satellite” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin satelles (“attendant”), perhaps of Etruscan origin.

• IPA^(key): /saˈtɛl.li.te/

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satellite m (plural satelliti)

1. satellite

• allestite

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saˈtel.li.te/, [saˈtɛl.lɪ.tɛ]

satellite

1. ablative singular of satelles

Borrowed from Latin satellitem, accusative singular of satelles.

satellite m (plural satellites)

1. (military, Antiquity) a guard or watchman

• English: satellite
• French: satellite

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (satellite, supplement)

satellite f (plural satellites)

1. (Jersey) satellite

• bolle à satellite (“satellite dish”)
• télévîsion dé satellite (“satellite television”)