caligatus

Latin

Etymology 1

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɡaː.tus/, [kälʲɪˈɡäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɡa.tus/, [käliˈɡäːt̪us]

Adjective

caligātus (feminine caligāta, neuter caligātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (military) wearing soldiers’ boots, booted
   1. (figuratively) belonging to the lower (social) orders, lowly, obscure
   2. (Medieval Latin, transferred sense) most pitiful, contemptible, unfortunate, or wretched

      Synonym: miserrimus

2. (of a peasant) in heavy shoes, brogans

Declension

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

• English: caligate

Noun

caligātus m (genitive caligātī); second declension

1. (military) a common soldier, a private

   Synonym: mīles gregārius

Declension

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

• “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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaː.liːˈɡaː.tus/, [käːlʲiːˈɡäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɡa.tus/, [käliˈɡäːt̪us]

Participle

cālīgātus (feminine cālīgāta, neuter cālīgātum); first/second-declension participle

1. steamed
2. groped about, had poor eyesight

Declension

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