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Latin
Etymology
Probably cālīgō (“I am dim-sighted, I have blurred vision”, verb) + -tiō (suffix forming verbal nouns), but compare cālīgō (“dim-sightedness, blurred vision”, noun).
Pronunciation
Noun
cālīgātiō f (genitive cālīgātiōnis); third declension
- dimness (of sight), obscurity (of vision)
c. 77–79 CE, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia, book XXIX, § 123:Aquilae, quam diximus pullos ad contuendum solem experiri, felle mixto cum melle Attico inunguntur nubeculae et caligationes suffusionesque oculorum. eadem vis est et in vulturino felle cum porri suco et melle exiguo, item in gallinacei felle ad argema et albugines ex aqua diltuo, item suffusiones oculorum, maxime candidi gallinacei. fimum quoque gallinaceorum, dumtaxat rubrum, lusciosis inlini monstrant.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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