caligatio
Latin
editEtymology
editProbably cālīgō (“I am dim-sighted, I have blurred vision”, verb) + -tiō (suffix forming verbal nouns), but compare cālīgō (“dim-sightedness, blurred vision”, noun).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kaː.liːˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [käːlʲiːˈɡäːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.liˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [käliˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
editcālīgātiō f (genitive cālīgātiōnis); third declension
- dimness (of sight), obscurity (of vision)
- c. 77–79 CE, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia[1], 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
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cālīgātiō | cālīgātiōnēs |
Genitive | cālīgātiōnis | cālīgātiōnum |
Dative | cālīgātiōnī | cālīgātiōnibus |
Accusative | cālīgātiōnem | cālīgātiōnēs |
Ablative | cālīgātiōne | cālīgātiōnibus |
Vocative | cālīgātiō | cālīgātiōnēs |
Descendants
edit- English: caligation
References
edit- “cālīgātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cālīgātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 245/1.
- “cālīgātiō” on page 258/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)