VESTIGE

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin vestigium footstep, footprint, track, ~ Date: 15th century 1. a. a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost, the smallest quantity or trace, footprint 1, a bodily part or organ that is small and degenerate or imperfectly developed in comparison to one more fully developed in an earlier stage of the individual, in a past generation, or in closely related forms, see: trace vestigial adjective vestigially adverb