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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; often assumed to be from vestīgium (“footprint, track”) + -ō, however the converse is equally possible. See vestīgium.
Pronunciation
Verb
vestīgō (present infinitive vestīgāre, perfect active vestīgāvī, supine vestīgātum); first conjugation
- to follow a track, track, search
- to investigate
Conjugation
- Note: perfect and supine are rare.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “vestigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vestigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vestigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “investigate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.