Latin

Noun

caliga f ‎(genitive caligae); first declension

1. (military) Leather shoe or boot

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• caligātus
• Caligula

Descendants

• Translingual: Caligus (genus name)
• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “caliga”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill