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vestigium

vestigium

Latin

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).

Related terms

Descendants

References

  1. vestige” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
  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.