vestigium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vestigium

Noun

vestigium (plural vestigia)

  1. A vestige.

Latin

Etymology

Of unknown origin.[1][2] Maybe from earlier *verstīgium, from verrō (“to sweep”).[3] Or, possibly from vē- +‎ *stīgō, from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /wesˈtiː.ɡi.um/, [wɛsˈtiː.ɡi.ũ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vesˈti.d͡ʒi.um/, [vesˈtiː.d͡ʒi.um]

Noun

vestīgium n (genitive vestīgiī or vestīgī); second declension

  1. footprint, track
  2. trace, vestige, mark
  3. sole of the foot
  4. horseshoe
  5. (figuratively, of time) moment, instant

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vestīgium vestīgia
Genitive vestīgiī
vestīgī1		 vestīgiōrum
Dative vestīgiō vestīgiīs
Accusative vestīgium vestīgia
Ablative vestīgiō vestīgiīs
Vocative vestīgium vestīgia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References
  1. “vestige” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
  2. “vestigium” in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1968
  3. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 671.

Further reading
  • vestigium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vestigium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vestigium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • vestigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to follow in any one's steps: vestigia alicuius sequi, persequi or vestigiis aliquem sequi, persequi
    • to follow in any one's steps: vestigiis alicuius insistere, ingredi (also metaph.)
    • not to stir from one's place: loco or vestigio se non movere
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