caligate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caligātus (“wearing soldiers’ boots, booted”), from caliga (“a Roman military leathern boot”) + -ātus (“-ed, -ate”, suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkælɪɡeɪt/

Adjective

caligate (not comparable)

(obsolete) Wearing caligae or military boots.
- 1562, Gerard Legh, The Accedens of Armory (4th ed., 1597), page 40b:
  These are Knightes in their offices, but not nobles, and are called knights Caligate of Armes, because they were startuppes to the middle legge.
- 1586, John Ferne, The Blazon of Gentrie, page 106:
  If ſuch a one haue deſerued, by playing the part of a caligate knight, that is, a ſouldior on foote…to be aduanced to the order of knighthod by the sword: firſt, let him receiue of his Soueraigne ſome ſignes and tokens of honor, to ſet vpon his armor, and then hath he capacitie to receiue ſo great a dignity.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:caligate.

Derived terms

knight caligate

Related terms

caligoid
Caligulism
caligus

Translations

wearing caligae or military boots

Latin: caligātus

References

“†Ca·ligate, a.” on page 33/1 of § 1 (C) of volume II (C, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray, 1893) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)

Anagrams

glaciate

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɡaː.te/, [kälʲɪˈɡäːt̪ɛ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɡa.te/, [käliˈɡäːt̪e]

Adjective

caligāte

vocative masculine singular of caligātus

Noun

caligāte m

vocative singular of caligātus

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kaː.liːˈɡaː.te/, [käːlʲiːˈɡäːt̪ɛ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɡa.te/, [käliˈɡäːt̪e]

Verb

cālīgāte

second-person plural present active imperative of cālīgō

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kaː.liːˈɡaː.te/, [käːlʲiːˈɡäːt̪ɛ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɡa.te/, [käliˈɡäːt̪e]

Participle

cālīgāte

vocative masculine singular of cālīgātus