Etymograph

English

Vestigian

By surface analysis, vestige + -ian.

Equivalent to vestige + -ian

Latin vestīgium ‘footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the…’

French vestige ‘vestige, relic’

English vestige

Today it means

adj Of or relating to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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