caligate

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkælɪɡeɪt/

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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:caligate.

• knight caligate

• “†Ca·ligate, a.” on page 33/1 of § 1 (C) of volume II (C, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray, 1893) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)

• glaciate

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ka.lɪˈɡaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.liˈɡaː.t̪e]

caligāte

1. vocative masculine singular of caligātus

caligāte m

1. vocative singular of caligātus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaː.liːˈɡaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.liˈɡaː.t̪e]

cālīgāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cālīgō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaː.liːˈɡaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.liˈɡaː.t̪e]

cālīgāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cālīgātus