vestigium

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vestigium.

Noun

vestigium (plural vestigia)

  1. A vestige.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

vestīgium n (genitive vestīgiī or vestīgī); second declension

  1. footprint, track
  2. trace, vestige, mark, sign
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.23:
      “ adgnōscō veteris vestīgia flammae.”
      “ I recognize the traces of an old flame.”
      (In other words, Dido feels that she is falling in love.)
  3. sole of the foot
  4. horseshoe
  5. (figuratively, of time) moment, instant
    Synonym: mōmentum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “vestige”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  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, →ISBN, 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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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