satellite
English
/ˈsætəlaɪt/
noun
Definitions
- A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
- A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
- A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
- (now) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
- (colloquial) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology.
- (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".
Etymology
Derived from Middle French satellite derived from Latin satelles (attendant).
Origin
Latin
satelles
Gloss
attendant
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- adenosatellite English
- anti-satellite English
- antisatellite English
- biosatellite English
- hypersatellite English
- intersatellite English
- intrasatellite English
- macrosatellite English
- megasatellite English
- microsatellite English
- minisatellite English
- myosatellite English
- nanosatellite English
- picosatellite English
- presatellite English
- protosatellite English
- quasi-satellite English
- quasisatellite English
- satellitism English
- satellitome English
- satellitosis English
- satelloid English
- subsatellite English
- telesatellite English
- satelles Latin
- satellitem Latin
- satellite Italian
- satellite French
- satellitt Norwegian Bokmål
- サテライト Japanese
- satellitt Norwegian Nynorsk
- bithshatailít Irish
- satailít Irish
- सेटेलाईट Hindi
- satellite Middle French
- *satro- Old Latin
- satelloid
- satellitome
- satellitism
- myosatellite
- satellitosis
- presatellite
- biosatellite
- subsatellite
- megasatellite
- picosatellite
- telesatellite
- minisatellite
- nanosatellite
- antisatellite
- microsatellite
- hypersatellite
- adenosatellite
- protosatellite
- intrasatellite
- macrosatellite
- intersatellite
- quasisatellite
- anti-satellite
- quasi-satellite