caliga

Borrowed from Latin caliga

caliga (plural caligae)

1. A Roman military shoe.
   • 2018 July 30, Billy Crone, The Satanic War on the Christian, volume 4, Lulu.com, page 118:

     If you were a soldier and walked with full gear up to 25 miles a day, you'd appreciate the sturdiness and coolness of the Caligae. And unlike modern military boots, these Caligae were specifically designed to reduce the likelihood of blisters forming during these forced marches.

Unknown[1] or from calceus (“shoe”) < calx (“heel”) + -eus.

caliga f (genitive caligae); first declension

1. (military) Leather shoe or boot

First-declension noun.

• caligātus
• Caligula

• Translingual: Caligus (genus name)
• → Catalan: càliga
• → English: caliga
• → Ancient Greek: καλίγιον (kalígion)
• → Hebrew: קַלְגַּס (qalgás)
• Italian: caliga
• → Portuguese: cáliga
• Sardinian: gàlia, gàliga
• → Spanish: cáliga

cālīgā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cālīgō

• “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 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