caligatus

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]”).

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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

• English: caligate

caligātus m (genitive caligātī); second declension

1. (military) a common soldier, a private

   Synonym: mīles gregārius

Second-declension noun.

• “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)

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

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

1. steamed
2. groped about, had poor eyesight

First/second-declension adjective.