caligatus

The adjective was formed as caliga (“a leathern shoe or boot”) +‎ -ātus (“-ed”, suffix forming adjectives); the noun is a substantivisation of the adjective’s masculine forms, in elliptical use for [mīles] caligātus (“booted [soldier]”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɡaː.tus/, [ka.lɪˈɡaː.tʊs]

caligātus (feminine caligāta, neuter caligātum); first/second declension

1. (military) wearing soldiers’ boots, booted
   1. (figuratively) belonging to the lower (social) orders, lowly, obscure
   2. (Medieval Latin, transferred sense) most pitiful, contemptible, unfortunate, or wretched
2. (of a peasant) in heavy shoes, brogans

First/second declension.

• (most pitiful, contemptible, unfortunate, or wretched): miserrimus

• English: caligate

caligātus m (genitive caligātī); second declension

1. (military) a common soldier, a private

Second declension.

• (common soldier, private): mīles gregārius

• călĭgātus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caligatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caligatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• călĭgātus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 245/1
• “caligātus” on page 258/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaː.liːˈɡaː.tus/, [kaː.liːˈɡaː.tʊs]

cālīgātus m (feminine cālīgāta, neuter cālīgātum); first/second declension

1. perfect passive participle of cālīgō

First/second declension.