caliga

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin caliga. === Noun === caliga (plural caligae) (historical) A heavy ancient Roman military sandal. (Catholicism) A pontifical vestment in the form of a silk stocking, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold thread, reaching to the base of the knee and worn over one’s regular socks but under episcopal sandals. Synonym: buskin == Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. === Noun === caliga f (genitive caligae); first declension (military) Leather shoe or boot ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== caligātus Caligula ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Caligus (genus name) → Catalan: càliga → English: caliga → Ancient Greek: καλίγιον (kalígion) → Hebrew: קַלְגַּס (qalgás) Italian: caliga → Portuguese: cáliga Sardinian: gàlia, gàliga → Spanish: cáliga === Verb === cālīgā second-person singular present active imperative of cālīgō === References === === Further reading === “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “caliga”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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