vestigiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

vestigium (plural vestigia)

1. (now rare) A vestige.

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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [wɛsˈtiː.ɡi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [vesˈtiː.d͡ʒi.um]

名詞

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

   Synonyms: mōmentum, pūnctum

   • 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

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

関連する語

• vestīgātiō
• vestīgātor
• vestīgiālis
• vestīgō

派生した語

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Further reading

• “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