satelles

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]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saˈtel.les/, [s̠äˈt̪ɛlːʲɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈtel.les/, [säˈt̪ɛlːes]

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.

Third-declension noun.

• Italian: satellite
• → Middle French: satellite
  • French: satellite
  • → Dutch: satelliet
  • → English: satellite
• Portuguese: satélite
• Spanish: satélite
• Swedish: satellit

• “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.