satellite

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsætəlaɪt/

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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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

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

   • 1826, Woodstock, Walter Scott, page 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, page 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 use 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".
7. (genetics) A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
8. A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
   • 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:

     Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.

• 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)

• (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

satellite (third-person singular simple present satellites, present participle satelliting, simple past and past participle satellited)

1. (broadcasting, transitive) To transmit by satellite.
   • 1997, Alvin A. Snyder, Warriors of Disinformation, page 160:

     It had to speed up its efforts to participate in the international satellite television market. In the summer of 1986 it began satelliting TV programs to Africa, and in early 1987, to Asia and twenty countries in Latin America […]

• 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. (relational) 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, →ISBN, page 45:

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

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• image satellite

• satellisation
• satelliser

• “satellite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin satellitem (originally 'attendant').

• IPA^(key): /saˈtɛl.li.te/

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• Rhymes: -ɛllite
• Hyphenation: sa‧tèl‧li‧te

satellite m (plural satelliti)

1. satellite

satellite (invariable)

1. (relational) satellite

• satellite in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• allestite, stelliate

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saˈtel.li.te/, [s̠äˈt̪ɛlːʲɪt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈtel.li.te/, [säˈt̪ɛlːit̪e]

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
• Dutch: satelliet

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

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satellite f (plural satellites)

1. (Jersey) satellite

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