caliga

Borrowed from Latin caliga.

caliga (plural caligae)

1. (historical) A heavy ancient Roman military sandal.
   • 2018 July 30, Billy Crone, The Satanic War on the Christian, volume 4, Lulu.com, page 118:

     If you were a soldier and walked with full gear up to 25 miles a day, you'd appreciate the sturdiness and coolness of the Caligae. And unlike modern military boots, these Caligae were specifically designed to reduce the likelihood of blisters forming during these forced marches.

2. (Catholicism) A pontifical vestment in the form of a silk stocking, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold thread, reaching to the base of the knee and worn over one’s regular socks but under episcopal sandals.

   Synonym: buskin

Unknown^[1] or from calceus (“shoe”) < calx (“heel”) + -eus.

caliga f (genitive caligae); first declension

1. (military) Leather shoe or boot

First-declension noun.

• caligātus
• Caligula

• Translingual: Caligus (genus name)
• → Catalan: càliga
• → English: caliga
• → Ancient Greek: καλίγιον (kalígion)
• → Hebrew: קַלְגַּס (qalgás)
• Italian: caliga
• → Portuguese: cáliga
• Sardinian: gàlia, gàliga
• → Spanish: cáliga

cālīgā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cālīgō

• “caliga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caliga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "caliga", 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)
• caliga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “caliga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caliga”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin