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Yes. The word caligo is a Scrabble US word. The word caligo is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

CALIGO,

5-letter words (2 found)

LOGIA,LOGIC,

4-letter words (16 found)

AGIO,ALCO,CALO,CIAO,CLAG,CLOG,COAL,COIL,COLA,GAOL,GILA,GLIA,GOAL,LAIC,LOCA,LOCI,

3-letter words (16 found)

AGO,AIL,CAG,CAL,CIG,COG,COL,GAL,GIO,GOA,LAC,LAG,LIG,LOG,OCA,OIL,

2-letter words (10 found)

AG,AI,AL,GI,GO,IO,LA,LI,LO,OI,

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Definitions and meaning of caligo

caligo

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cālīgō (“darkness”). Doublet of garua.

Noun

caligo (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) dimness or obscurity of sight, caused by a speck on the cornea
  2. A butterfly of the genus Caligo.

See also

  • Caligus

Anagrams

  • glacio-

Latin

Etymology

Formation from an earlier adjective is possible, similarly to several similar nouns in -īgō, examples at rōbīgō, with the verb deriving from the noun, as cālīgō (noun) +‎ -ō. A possible reading in Pacuvius suggests earlier verb semantics as “I make dark”, consistent with this construction. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“dark spot”), suggested to be connected to columba (“dove, pigeon”), Sanskrit कलङ्क (kalaṅka, “dark blemish”), Serbo-Croatian kâl / ка̑л ("mud, dirt"). Various further Indo-European cognates have been suggested, such as Ancient Greek κελαινός (kelainós, “dark, black”), Ancient Greek κηλίς (kēlís, “spot, stain”) and the rare adjective Latin cā̆lidus (“having a white spot on the forehead”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kaːˈliː.ɡoː/, [käːˈlʲiːɡoː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈli.ɡo/, [käˈliːɡo]

Noun

cālīgō f (genitive cālīginis); third declension

  1. fog, mist, vapor
  2. darkness, gloom
  3. (figuratively) inability to perceive mentally

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • (fog, mist): nebula

Descendants

  • Asturian: calina
  • Catalan: calitja
  • Galician: calixen
  • Italian: caligine
  • Portuguese: caligem, caruja, garoa, garua
  • Sicilian: calìnija
  • Spanish: calígine, calina, calima, garúa
  • Translingual: Caligo
  • Venetian: calìgo

Verb

cālīgō (present infinitive cālīgāre, perfect active cālīgāvī, supine cālīgātum); first conjugation

  1. to (emit) steam
  2. to be dark or gloomy
  3. to grope about; have poor eyesight

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • cālīgātiō

References

  • “caligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “caligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caligo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • caligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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