caligo
English
Etymology
Latin caligo (“darkness”). Doublet of garua.
Noun
caligo (uncountable)
- (medicine, obsolete) dimness or obscurity of sight, caused by a speck on the cornea
- A butterfly of the genus Caligo.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for caligo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- glacio-
Latin
Etymology
Formation from an earlier adjective is possible, similarly to several similar nouns in -īgō, examples at rōbīgō, with the verb deriving from the noun, as cālīgō (noun) + -ō. A possible reading in Pacuvius suggests earlier verb semantics as “I make dark”, consistent with this construction. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“dark spot”), suggested to be connected to columba (“dove, pigeon”), Sanskrit कलङ्क (kalaṅka, “dark blemish”), Serbo-Croatian kâl / ка̑л ("mud, dirt").[1][2][3] Various further Indo-European cognates have been suggested, such as Ancient Greek κελαινός (kelainós, “dark, black”), Ancient Greek κηλίς (kēlís, “spot, stain”) and the rare adjective Latin cā̆lidus (“having a white spot on the forehead”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaːˈliː.ɡoː/, [käːˈlʲiːɡoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈli.ɡo/, [käˈliːɡo]
Noun
cālīgō f (genitive cālīginis); third declension
- fog, mist, vapor
- darkness, gloom
- (figuratively) inability to perceive mentally
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cālīgō | cālīginēs |
Genitive | cālīginis | cālīginum |
Dative | cālīginī | cālīginibus |
Accusative | cālīginem | cālīginēs |
Ablative | cālīgine | cālīginibus |
Vocative | cālīgō | cālīginēs |
Synonyms
- (fog, mist): nebula
Descendants
- Asturian: calina
- Catalan: calitja
- Galician: calixen
- Italian: caligine
- Portuguese: caligem, caruja, garoa, garua
- Sicilian: calìnija
- Spanish: calígine, calina, calima, garúa
- Translingual: Caligo
- Venetian: calìgo
Verb
cālīgō (present infinitive cālīgāre, perfect active cālīgāvī, supine cālīgātum); first conjugation
- I (emit) steam
- I am dark or gloomy
- I grope about; have poor eyesight
Conjugation
Conjugation of cālīgō (first conjugation) | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | cālīgō | cālīgās | cālīgat | cālīgāmus | cālīgātis | cālīgant |
imperfect | cālīgābam | cālīgābās | cālīgābat | cālīgābāmus | cālīgābātis | cālīgābant | |
future | cālīgābō | cālīgābis | cālīgābit | cālīgābimus | cālīgābitis | cālīgābunt | |
perfect | cālīgāvī | cālīgāvistī | cālīgāvit | cālīgāvimus | cālīgāvistis | cālīgāvērunt, cālīgāvēre | |
pluperfect | cālīgāveram | cālīgāverās | cālīgāverat | cālīgāverāmus | cālīgāverātis | cālīgāverant | |
future perfect | cālīgāverō | cālīgāveris | cālīgāverit | cālīgāverimus | cālīgāveritis | cālīgāverint | |
passive | present | cālīgor | cālīgāris, cālīgāre | cālīgātur | cālīgāmur | cālīgāminī | cālīgantur |
imperfect | cālīgābar | cālīgābāris, cālīgābāre | cālīgābātur | cālīgābāmur | cālīgābāminī | cālīgābantur | |
future | cālīgābor | cālīgāberis, cālīgābere | cālīgābitur | cālīgābimur | cālīgābiminī | cālīgābuntur | |
perfect | cālīgātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | cālīgātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | cālīgātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | cālīgem | cālīgēs | cālīget | cālīgēmus | cālīgētis | cālīgent |
imperfect | cālīgārem | cālīgārēs | cālīgāret | cālīgārēmus | cālīgārētis | cālīgārent | |
perfect | cālīgāverim | cālīgāverīs | cālīgāverit | cālīgāverīmus | cālīgāverītis | cālīgāverint | |
pluperfect | cālīgāvissem | cālīgāvissēs | cālīgāvisset | cālīgāvissēmus | cālīgāvissētis | cālīgāvissent | |
passive | present | cālīger | cālīgēris, cālīgēre | cālīgētur | cālīgēmur | cālīgēminī | cālīgentur |
imperfect | cālīgārer | cālīgārēris, cālīgārēre | cālīgārētur | cālīgārēmur | cālīgārēminī | cālīgārentur | |
perfect | cālīgātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | cālīgātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | cālīgā | — | — | cālīgāte | — |
future | — | cālīgātō | cālīgātō | — | cālīgātōte | cālīgantō | |
passive | present | — | cālīgāre | — | — | cālīgāminī | — |
future | — | cālīgātor | cālīgātor | — | — | cālīgantor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | cālīgāre | cālīgāvisse | cālīgātūrum esse | cālīgārī | cālīgātum esse | cālīgātum īrī | |
participles | cālīgāns | — | cālīgātūrus | — | cālīgātus | cālīgandus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
cālīgandī | cālīgandō | cālīgandum | cālīgandō | cālīgātum | cālīgātū |
Derived terms
- cālīgātiō
References
- “caligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caligo 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)
- caligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to obscure the mental vision: mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere
- to obscure the mental vision: mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere
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- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 547-548
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “kalyo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 186