See Caligula in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "Caligula"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "Caligola"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "caliga",
"3": "-ula",
"nocat": "1",
"t1": "leather boot",
"t2": "diminutive"
},
"expansion": "caliga (“leather boot”) + -ula (“diminutive”)",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From caliga (“leather boot”) + -ula (“diminutive”), a nickname acquired in early childhood when his parents dressed him like a soldier during military campaigns.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Caligulae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligula",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligulae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligulae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligulam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligulā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligula",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Caligula<1>",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "Caligula m sg (genitive Caligulae); first declension",
"name": "la-proper noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Caligula<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Individuals",
"orig": "la:Individuals",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Roman Empire",
"orig": "la:Roman Empire",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Caligula (emperor)"
],
"id": "en-Caligula-la-name-gAsr1h49",
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[kaˈlɪ.ɡʊ.ɫa]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[kaˈliː.ɡu.la]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "Caligula"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "Caligula"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "Caligola"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "caliga",
"3": "-ula",
"nocat": "1",
"t1": "leather boot",
"t2": "diminutive"
},
"expansion": "caliga (“leather boot”) + -ula (“diminutive”)",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From caliga (“leather boot”) + -ula (“diminutive”), a nickname acquired in early childhood when his parents dressed him like a soldier during military campaigns.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Caligulae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligula",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligulae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligulae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligulam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligulā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caligula",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Caligula<1>",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "Caligula m sg (genitive Caligulae); first declension",
"name": "la-proper noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Caligula<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 4-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin first declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the first declension",
"Latin proper nouns",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"la:Individuals",
"la:Roman Empire"
],
"glosses": [
"Caligula (emperor)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[kaˈlɪ.ɡʊ.ɫa]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[kaˈliː.ɡu.la]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "Caligula"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Caligula meaning in Latin (2.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.