vestige

Meaning

  1. A mark left on the earth by a foot.
  2. A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.
  3. A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.
  4. The remaining portion of a partially suppressed sideband.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology

From French vestige, from Latin vestīgium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”).

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