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vestigium
vestigium
Latin
Noun
vestīgium n (genitive vestīgiī or vestīgī); second declension
- footprint, track
- trace, vestige, mark
- sole of the foot
- horseshoe
- (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
- vestīgātiō
- vestīgātor
- vestīgō
Descendants
References
- 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)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vestigium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
- to follow in any one's steps: vestigia alicuius sequi, persequi or vestigiis aliquem sequi, persequi
- ↑ “vestige” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
- ↑ “vestigium” in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1968
- ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill.