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 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

The veteris vestigia flammæ, or old pleasant recollections of our being together at that place make me begin another sheet to you. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright

“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

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

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 — Complete by Michel de Montaigne