caligate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caligātus (wearing soldiers’ boots, booted), from caliga (a Roman military leathern boot) + -ātus (-ed, -ate, suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkælɪɡeɪt/

Adjective

caligate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Wearing caligae or military boots.
    • 1562, Gerard Legh, The Accedens of Armory, 4th edition, published 1597, page 40b:
      These are Knightes in their offices, but not nobles, and are called knights Caligate of Armes, because they were startuppes to the middle legge.
    • 1586, John Ferne, The Blazon of Gentrie, page 106:
      If ſuch a one haue deſerued, by playing the part of a caligate knight, that is, a ſouldior on foote…to be aduanced to the order of knighthod by the sword: firſt, let him receiue of his Soueraigne ſome ſignes and tokens of honor, to ſet vpon his armor, and then hath he capacitie to receiue ſo great a dignity.
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Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

caligāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of caligātus

Noun

caligāte m

  1. vocative singular of caligātus

Pronunciation

Verb

cālīgāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cālīgō

Pronunciation

Participle

cālīgāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of cālīgātus
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