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- vestige



[vestige 词源字典] - vestige: [17] Vestige comes via French vestige from Latin vestīgium ‘footprint, trace’, a word of uncertain origin. From it was derived vestīgāre ‘track, trace’, which has given English investigate.
=> investigate[vestige etymology, vestige origin, 英语词源] - vestige (n.)




- c. 1600, from French vestige "a mark, trace, sign" (16c.), from Latin vestigium "footprint, trace," of unknown origin.