caliga

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin caliga

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unknown[1] or from calceus (shoe) < calx (“heel”) + -eus.

Noun[edit]

caliga f (genitive caligae); first declension

  1. (military) Leather shoe or boot

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Verb[edit]

cālīgā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cālīgō

References[edit]

  • 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)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN