the.com/remnant
the leftover that outlived everything it belonged to and refuses to admit it lost.
means A small piece or quantity of something that remains after the rest has been used, removed, or destroyed.
from From Old French 'remenant,' the present participle of 'remenoir' meaning 'to remain,' which traces back to Latin 'remanere' — 're-' (back) plus 'manere' (to stay, to dwell). Buried in there is the same root as 'mansion' and 'permanent,' all of them words for things that simply refuse to leave.
- sale bin
- Fabric remnants sell cheap for being too small to matter
- cosmic relic
- The microwave background is light leftover from the Big Bang
- biblical sense
- Often means the faithful few who survive the catastrophe
- star corpse
- Supernova remnants are gas shells from exploded stars
- latin root
- From remanere, to remain or stay behind
australian aboriginal peoples — estimated 250,000-300,000 survivors today of pre-1788 population of 300,000-1,000,000
pompeii — preserved roman city buried by vesuvius eruption in 79 ad, containing 20,000 residents' remains
great barrier reef — once 9,000 km of coral, now 50% bleached and dying since 1998