caligatus
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
The adjective was formed as caliga (“a leathern shoe or boot”) + -ātus (“-ed”, suffix forming adjectives); the noun is a substantivisation of the adjective’s masculine forms, in elliptical use for [mīles] caligātus (“booted [soldier]”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ka.liˈɡaː.tus/, [kälʲɪˈɡäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.liˈɡa.tus/, [käliˈɡäːt̪us]
Adjective edit
caligātus (feminine caligāta, neuter caligātum); first/second-declension adjective
- (military) wearing soldiers’ boots, booted
- (figuratively) belonging to the lower (social) orders, lowly, obscure
- (Medieval Latin, transferred sense) most pitiful, contemptible, unfortunate, or wretched
- Synonym: miserrimus
- (of a peasant) in heavy shoes, brogans
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | caligātus | caligāta | caligātum | caligātī | caligātae | caligāta | |
| Genitive | caligātī | caligātae | caligātī | caligātōrum | caligātārum | caligātōrum | |
| Dative | caligātō | caligātō | caligātīs | ||||
| Accusative | caligātum | caligātam | caligātum | caligātōs | caligātās | caligāta | |
| Ablative | caligātō | caligātā | caligātō | caligātīs | |||
| Vocative | caligāte | caligāta | caligātum | caligātī | caligātae | caligāta | |
Descendants edit
- English: caligate
Noun edit
caligātus m (genitive caligātī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | caligātus | caligātī |
| Genitive | caligātī | caligātōrum |
| Dative | caligātō | caligātīs |
| Accusative | caligātum | caligātōs |
| Ablative | caligātō | caligātīs |
| Vocative | caligāte | caligātī |
References edit
- “călĭgātus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caligatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caligatus 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)
- călĭgātus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 245/1.
- “caligātus” on page 258/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaː.liːˈɡaː.tus/, [käːlʲiːˈɡäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.liˈɡa.tus/, [käliˈɡäːt̪us]
Participle edit
cālīgātus (feminine cālīgāta, neuter cālīgātum); first/second-declension participle
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cālīgātus | cālīgāta | cālīgātum | cālīgātī | cālīgātae | cālīgāta | |
| Genitive | cālīgātī | cālīgātae | cālīgātī | cālīgātōrum | cālīgātārum | cālīgātōrum | |
| Dative | cālīgātō | cālīgātō | cālīgātīs | ||||
| Accusative | cālīgātum | cālīgātam | cālīgātum | cālīgātōs | cālīgātās | cālīgāta | |
| Ablative | cālīgātō | cālīgātā | cālīgātō | cālīgātīs | |||
| Vocative | cālīgāte | cālīgāta | cālīgātum | cālīgātī | cālīgātae | cālīgāta | |