caliga

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caliga

Noun

caliga (plural caligae)

  1. A Roman military shoe.
    • 2018 July 30, Billy Crone, The Satanic War on the Christian, volume 4, Lulu.com, page 118:
      If you were a soldier and walked with full gear up to 25 miles a day, you'd appreciate the sturdiness and coolness of the Caligae. And unlike modern military boots, these Caligae were specifically designed to reduce the likelihood of blisters forming during these forced marches.

Latin

Etymology

Unknown or from calceus (“shoe”) < calx (“heel”) + -eus.

Noun

caliga f (genitive caligae); first declension

  1. (military) Leather shoe or boot

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caliga caligae
Genitive caligae caligārum
Dative caligae caligīs
Accusative caligam caligās
Ablative caligā caligīs
Vocative caliga caligae

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

cālīgā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cālīgō

References

  • “caliga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “caliga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caliga 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)
  • caliga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “caliga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “caliga”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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