The story
- Latin · borrowed fromcaligātus“wearing soldiers’ boots, booted”
- English todaycaligate
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).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.