Other forms: vestiges
A vestige is a small trace left of something that has gone. Not a vestige of, the last vestiges, vestiges of an old wall.
It appears most often in the negative, where not a vestige of proof means none at all. In biology a vestigial organ is one left over from an ancestor with no use now, and the Latin behind it means a footprint.
1nounvestigeA small trace left of something that has gone.
“A few crumbling walls are the last vestige of the old castle.”
vestige is a trace.
Latin vestigium means a footprint or track.
Latin
vestīgium — footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark
French
vestige
English, today
vestige
From French vestige, from Latin vestīgium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”). a doublet of vestigium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA