caligatus

Latin

Etymology 1

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]”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

caligātus (feminine caligāta, neuter caligātum); first/second-declension adjective

(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
(of a peasant) in heavy shoes, brogans

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	caligātus	caligāta	caligātum	caligātī	caligātae	caligāta
genitive	caligātī	caligātae	caligātī	caligātōrum	caligātārum	caligātōrum
dative	caligātō	caligātae	caligātō	caligātīs
accusative	caligātum	caligātam	caligātum	caligātōs	caligātās	caligāta
ablative	caligātō	caligātā	caligātō	caligātīs
vocative	caligāte	caligāta	caligātum	caligātī	caligātae	caligāta

Descendants

English: caligate

Noun

caligātus m (genitive caligātī); second declension

(military) a common soldier, a private
Synonym: mīles gregārius

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	caligātus	caligātī
genitive	caligātī	caligātōrum
dative	caligātō	caligātīs
accusative	caligātum	caligātōs
ablative	caligātō	caligātīs
vocative	caligāte	caligātī

References

“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)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Participle

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

steamed
groped about, had poor eyesight

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	cālīgātus	cālīgāta	cālīgātum	cālīgātī	cālīgātae	cālīgāta
genitive	cālīgātī	cālīgātae	cālīgātī	cālīgātōrum	cālīgātārum	cālīgātōrum
dative	cālīgātō	cālīgātae	cālīgātō	cālīgātīs
accusative	cālīgātum	cālīgātam	cālīgātum	cālīgātōs	cālīgātās	cālīgāta
ablative	cālīgātō	cālīgātā	cālīgātō	cālīgātīs
vocative	cālīgāte	cālīgāta	cālīgātum	cālīgātī	cālīgātae	cālīgāta