vestigo
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; often assumed to be from vestīgium (“footprint, track”) + -ō, however the converse is equally possible. See vestīgium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛsˈtiː.ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vesˈt̪iː.ɡo]
Verb
vestīgō (present infinitive vestīgāre, perfect active vestīgāvī, supine vestīgātum); first conjugation
- to follow a track, track, search
- to investigate
Conjugation
- Note: perfect and supine are rare.
Conjugation of vestīgō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “vestigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vestigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vestigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “investigate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.