campagus

Borrowed from Latin campagus.

campagus (plural campagi)

1. A Roman military boot.

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campagus m (genitive campagī); second declension

1. campagus, a kind of boot with closed or mostly closed upper worn by emperors and military officers, usually with a lion's head decoration.
2. (Late Latin) campagus, a kind of shoe with an open instep and straps connecting the front of the upper to the heel.

Second-declension noun.

• “campagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• campagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "campagus", 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)