vestigium

Borrowed from Latin vestigium.

vestigium (plural vestigia)

1. A vestige.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯esˈtiː.ɡi.um/, [u̯ɛs̠ˈt̪iːɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vesˈti.d͡ʒi.um/, [vesˈt̪iːd͡ʒium]

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

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     omnemque Galliae salutem in illo vestigio temporis positam arbitrarentur

     And they considered all the safety of Gallia laid on this moment of time

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• vestīgātiō
• vestīgātor
• vestīgō

• → Catalan: vestigi
• → English: vestige
• → French: vestige
• → Portuguese: vestígio
• → Romanian: vestigiu
• → Spanish: vestigio
• → Italian: vestigio

• “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