Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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satellite

/ˈsætəlaɪ̯t/ noun, verb

Forms satellites satelliting satellited

  1. noun A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. “The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.”
  2. noun A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data, etc. to Earth. “Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.”
  3. noun A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
  4. noun (now rare) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
  5. noun (colloquial, uncountable) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology. “Do you have satellite at your house?”
  6. noun (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".
  7. noun (genetics) A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
  8. noun A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
  9. verb (broadcasting, transitive) To transmit by satellite.
  10. verb To orbit, like a satellite

Synonyms

artificial satellite sat orbiter planet

Etymology

From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent. "The satellites of power." I. Disraeli.
  2. noun A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar.
  3. adjective Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.

Etymology [F., fr. L. Stelles, -itis, an attendant.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “satellite”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “satellite” (best matches first).