caliga

See also: Caliga

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

• caligātus
• Caligula

Descendants

• Translingual: Caligus (genus name)
• → Catalan: càliga
• → English: caliga
• → Ancient Greek: καλίγιον (kalígion)
• → Hebrew: קַלְגַּס (qalgás)
• Italian: caliga
• → Portuguese: cáliga
• Sardinian: gàlia, gàliga
• → Spanish: cáliga

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