satelles

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Three possibilities are:

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

satelles m or f (genitive satellitis); third declension

  1. attendant, guard, bodyguard
    Synonym: stīpātor
  2. 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[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative satelles satellitēs
Genitive satellitis satellitum
Dative satellitī satellitibus
Accusative satellitem satellitēs
Ablative satellite satellitibus
Vocative satelles satellitēs

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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
  1. ^ Woudhuizen, Etruscan as a Colonial Luwian Language
  2. ^ H. Blanchet, Trois modes de dénomination du divin dans les panthéons indo-européens