Searchable Lemmata: caliga (L).
Alternate Forms: calliga.
1a(n.)
Garment;
footwear; hose or cloth stocking. footwear as distinct from hose (and cf. sense 1b); specifically (in monastic and ecclesiastical contexts - cf. DOE ÆGl) a sock-like slipper worn by monks.(ante 700 - 1600)
4. Nos tamen mediocribus locis sufficere credimus monachis per singulos cucullam et tonicam cucullam in hieme villosam in estate puram aut vetustatem, et scapulare propter opera indumenta pedum pedules et caligas : on medenlicum stowum genihtsumian munecum geond ænlepige culam & tonican culam on wintre þicce on sumere þinne oððe ealdnesse & scapularian for weorcum fiandreaf fota soccas & hosan.
[DOE BenRGl (0480 (55.91.13))]
5. Ego emo cutes et pelles, et preparo eas arte mea, et facio ex eis calciamenta diuersi generis, subtalares et ficones, caligas et utres, frenos et falera, flascones et casidilia, calcaria et chamos, peras et marsupia; et nemo uestrum uult hiemare sine mea arte. : Ic bicge hyda & fell, & gearkie hig mid cræfte minon, & wyrce of him gescy mistlices cynnes, swyftleras & sceos, leþerhosa & butericas, bridelþwancgas & geræda, flaxan ł pinnan & higdi fatu, spurleþera & hælftra, pusan & fætelsas; & nan eower nele oferwintran buton minon cræfte.
[DOE ÆColl (0115 (170))]
6. Lotum induitur mundis uestimentis, id est interula, cuculla, caligis, calceis, cuiuscumque sit ordinis; <nisi> si uero sacerdos fuerit, circumdatur ei stola super cucullam, si ita ratio dictauerit : geðwegen byþ gescrydd mid clænum reafum þæt ys mid hemeþe & culan hosum sceon swa hwylcere swa he si endebyrdnysse <buton> gif he soþlice sacerd byþ si ymbutonseald him stole ofer þa culan gif swa gescead wissaþ.
[DOE RegCGl (Kornexl) (0500 (66.1582)) 970/1050]
7. cum calciaretur [Willelmus II] novas caligas, interrogavit cubicularium quanti constitissent; cum ille respondebat 'tres solidos', indignabundus ... ait ... : 'ex quo habet rex caligas tam exilis pretii?'
Historic.
[DMLBS W. MALM. (GR IV 313) circa 1125]
10. [corpus] vestiatur staminia ... noviter lota ... et cuculla ... ; calcietur caligis de supra dicto panno factis, usque ad genua attingentibus, et nocturnalibus
Ecclesiastic/Regula.
[DMLBS LANFR. (Const. 184) ante 1089]
Sex: Male, Female Use: Ecclesiastical Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1b(n.)
Footwear;
leather sandal with thongs binding the sole to foot and ankle (as worn by Roman soldiers).(ante 1100)
1. Dixit angelus ad petrum precingere et calcia te calligas tuas et fecit sic et exiens sequebatur eum et nesciebat quia uerum est quod fiebat per angelum estimabat autem se uisum uidere : cvoeð engel to petre f'egyrd & gisceo ðec sceohðongvm ðinvm & dyde sva & færende gifylgede hine & nyste þætte soð voere þætte væs ðerh engel gitelede wvt' hine gisihðe gisege.
[DOE DurRitGl 1 (Thomp-Lind) (0431 (58.6))]
Sex: Male Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1c(n.)
Armour;
greave (with ferrea or similar); metal covering for the lower leg.(circa 1184 - ante 1500 ?)
1. [134] ... pro pelliciis et opertoriis grisiis et pro j penula de bissis ...
[135] ... pro j lorica et caligis ferreis ...
Accounts.
[DMLBS Pipe (134-135) 1184]
2. recepit de patre suo ... j loricam et j par caligarum ferrearum ... et j mantellum de scarlata ut ipse prtaret crucem patris sui ... in Jerosolim’
Legal.
[DMLBS Pl. K. or J. (no. 248) 1201]
Sex: Male Use: Military Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot, Leg.
Definite, From Classical Latin caliga (a military boot).
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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