satelles
Latin
Etymology
Three possibilities are:
- From Old Latin *satro- (“enough, full”) + *leyt- (“to let go”), perhaps comparable to Proto-Germanic *fulgāną (English follow), which might be composed of roots with similar meaning.
- From Etruscan 𐌆𐌀𐌕𐌋𐌀𐌈 (zatlaθ) "follower, guard", maybe connected with Camunian zaθalas and zaθaú "stability".[1]
- From Old Latin *satellus, diminutive of *satḗr (“the possessor”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to receive, obtain”) (whence also Ancient Greek κτάομαι (ktáomai) and Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎱𐎠𐎺𐎠 (x-š-ç-p-a-v-a /xšaçapāvā/)).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [saˈtɛl.lɛs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [saˈt̪ɛl.les]
Noun
satelles m or f (genitive satellitis); third declension
- attendant, guard, bodyguard
- Synonym: stīpātor
- accomplice, follower
- tibi apparuit inter Seianianos satellites mortem unam patere servitutis fugam.
- It was clear to you that, surrounded as he was by the followers of Sejanus, death was the only way to escape from slavery.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | satelles | satellitēs |
| genitive | satellitis | satellitum |
| dative | satellitī | satellitibus |
| accusative | satellitem | satellitēs |
| ablative | satellite | satellitibus |
| vocative | satelles | satellitēs |
Descendants
- → Aragonese: satelite (learned)
- → Asturian: satélite (learned)
- → Basque: satelite
- → Catalan: satèl·lit (learned)
- → Galician: satélite (learned)
- → Italian: satellite (learned)
- → Middle French: satellite (learned)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: satellitt (learned)
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: satellitt (learned)
- → Polish: satelita (learned)
- → Portuguese: satélite (learned)
- → Spanish: satélite (learned)
- → Swedish: satellit (learned)
- → Finnish: satelliitti
References
- “satelles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “satelles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "satelles", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- satelles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.