Latin

Noun

cālīgātiō f ‎(genitive cālīgātiōnis); third declension

1. dimness (of sight), obscurity (of vision)
   • AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia, 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.

Declension

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: caligation

References

• cālīgātĭo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cālīgātĭo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 245/1.
• “cālīgātiō” on page 258/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)