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caliga

boot (esp. of soldiers)

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Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 2 · 23.53/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. caliga — de Vaan

caliga 'boot (esp. of soldiers)' [f. a\ (Cic.+) J Derivatives: PN Caligula (Tac.+). The earlier etymology as haplology from *calca-liga 'binding the heel' has already been refuted by WH. The etymology is unknown: to cald 'wooden shoe' (Paul, ex F.)? Or to calix 'vessel'? BibL: WH I: 138, EM 87. callgO, -inis 'darkness, obscurity' [f n] (PL+) Derivatives: caligare 4to be dark' (maybe Pac.+ 'to make dark' (uncertain … — [de Vaan, s.v. caliga, p. 97]

2. călĭga — Lewis & Short

călĭga, ae, f.cf. calceus, from calx,

I a shoe of leather, esp. that worn by the Roman soldiers (cf. Dio, 48, 12; Smith, Antiq., and Becker, Gall. III. p. 134, 2d ed.), a half-boot, a soldier's boot.

I Lit., *Cic. Att. 2, 3, 1; Just. 38, 10, 3; * Suet. Calig. 52; * Juv. 16, 24; Edict. Diocl. p. 241.—

II Meton., military service, Plin. 7, 43, 44, § 135; Sen. Brev. Vit. 17, 6; id. Ben. 5, 16, 2; Inscr. Grut. 445, 9.

In the wild

caligas Juvenal, Saturae 5.16.24
caligas Petronius, Satyricon 69
caligae Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.34
caligae Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.3.1
caligae Ausonius, Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1.2.4
caligas Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.19

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. caliga (scan pp. 97-98; entry #185). Root candidates: *keh2l-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. caliga (scan p. 111; entry #1545).

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