vestigio

Meaning

trace, vestige

Example

Only a stone vestige remains of the old bridge.

A way to remember it

English "vestige" and "vestigial" (a vestigial organ) come from it: a "trace" left behind. Not vestido "dress".

Word forms

The spellings this word turns up in. There are 1 of them.

More words at level C1

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• acervo body of accumulated assets, corpus

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