caligatio

Latin

Etymology

Probably cālīgō (“I am dim-sighted, I have blurred vision”, verb) +‎ -tiō (suffix forming verbal nouns), but compare cālīgō (“dim-sightedness, blurred vision”, noun).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaː.liːˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [käːlʲiːˈɡäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [käliˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cālīgātiō f (genitive cālīgātiōnis); third declension

1. dimness (of sight), obscurity (of vision)
   • c. 77–79 CE, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia‎^[1], book XXIX, § 123:

     Aquilae, quam diximus pullos ad contuendum solem experiri, felle mixto cum melle Attico inunguntur nubeculae et caligationes suffusionesque oculorum. eadem vis est et in vulturino felle cum porri suco et melle exiguo, item in gallinacei felle ad argema et albugines ex aqua diltuo, item suffusiones oculorum, maxime candidi gallinacei. fimum quoque gallinaceorum, dumtaxat rubrum, lusciosis inlini monstrant.

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Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cālīgātiō	cālīgātiōnēs
genitive	cālīgātiōnis	cālīgātiōnum
dative	cālīgātiōnī	cālīgātiōnibus
accusative	cālīgātiōnem	cālīgātiōnēs
ablative	cālīgātiōne	cālīgātiōnibus
vocative	cālīgātiō	cālīgātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: caligation

References

• “cālīgātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cālīgātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 245/1.
• “cālīgātiō” on page 258/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)