vestige

Meaning

Noun

• A mark left on the earth by a foot.
• A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.
• A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.

Origin

• From French vestige, from Latin vestīgium ("footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark").