vestigium
Americannoun
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vestigia
plural
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of vestigium
First recorded in 1630–40, vestigium is from the Latin word vestīgium footprint, trace
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One day you go to the market and where the stall used to be there is only a mark in the earth, a vestigium.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Chnographie, from ἴκνος vestigium, and γράϕα Scribo, or Insculpo; which properly signifies the Figure that the Plane of the Foot impresses upon the Earth.
From An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Claude Perrault
"Peregrinantes, qui, qua transeunt, nullum sui vestigium relinquunt;" they are as travelers who do nothing to leave any trace of their course.
From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by John Selby Watson
We have seen that Roman lawyers regarded vestigia, which originally meant the tracks left by an animal, as a form of evidence.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"There you will distinctly see," said he, "the ruts of my chariot wheels, 'manifesta rotæ vestigia cernes.'"
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
It comes—we may say—he was your true companion; nor less paribus curis vestigia figit, for I dare say you would both take an orra thought upon the gallows.
From Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The very thought of these vestigia retrorsum, would not have found toleration, for a moment.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
There was no rent in her side that could be seen, and to all appearance she was safe and sound—only she was stranded on the Goodwins, from which vestigia nulla retrorsum.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
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