vestigium

American  

[ve-stij-ee-uhm] / vɛˈstɪdʒ i əm /

noun

Anatomy.

vestigia plural

1. a vestigial structure of any kind; vestige.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• vestigia
  plural

Etymology

Origin of vestigium

First recorded in 1630–40, vestigium is from the Latin word vestīgium footprint, trace

Example Sentences

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vestigium vestigia

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 Perrault, Claude

"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 Watson, John Selby

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

But time hath left us no vestigia of their architecture unlesse that little that remains of the castle of Old Sarum, where the mortar is as hard as a stone.

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John

These vestigia or remnants—instances of apparently hidebound conservatism on nature's part—are very much in the public eye at present, partly on account of their novelty and of their exceptional and extraordinary character.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

This was a woman of mean condition; and, amongst that class of people, 'tis no very new thing to see some examples of rare virtue:                          "Extrema per illos                Justitia excedens terris vestigia fecit."

From The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 13 by Cotton, Charles

What vestigia, what remembrances, but such as will inspire abhorrence of the attempter?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel