The corpus record — Latin

Caligula

Caligula · f

a small military boot

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 2 · 5.77/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 3 · 5.18/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
De Constantia 2 · 3.78/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

călĭgŭla — Lewis & Short

călĭgŭla, ae, f.dim.caliga,

I a small military boot; only post-class. ap. Ambros. Ep. 7, 53; Hor. S. 1, 3, 128; Schol. ad Juv. 3, 67.—Hence,

II As nom. propr.: Călĭgŭ-la, ae, m., a cognomen of the successor of Tiberius, since from his earliest youth he was engaged in military service; cf. Suet. Calig. 9; Tac. A. 1, 41; 1, 69; Aur. Vict. Caes. 3.

In the wild

Caligulam Seneca, De Constantia 2.18.4
Caligulam Tacitus, Annales 1.p70
Caligulae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.16.8
Caligulas Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 42
Caligulae Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 33
Caligula Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 8

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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