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Satellite

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a natural or artificial body orbiting a planet or star
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Stage 1 of 2
satelles
Latin · ancient
"an attendant, a bodyguard"
an attendant or bodyguard accompanying an important person
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Stage 2 of 2
satellite
English · 1600s
"a body orbiting a larger one"
applied by astronomers to a body orbiting a planet, later an artificial orbiting device
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