remnant

English

From Middle English, contraction of remenant, from Anglo-Norman remanant, present participle of remaindre, from Latin remaneō.

remnant (plural remnants)

The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
Usually not enough to make an entire project by itself, remnants of several fabrics can be used to make quilts.
An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

(small remaining portion): relic, residue, remainder, lave; See also Thesaurus:remainder
(unsold end of piece goods): remains

small portion remaining of a larger thing or group

Armenian: մնացորդ (hy) (mnacʿord)
Bulgarian: оста́тък (bg) m (ostátǎk)
Catalan: romanalla (ca) f
Czech: pozůstatek m
Danish: rest (da) c
Dutch: resten (nl), overblijfsel (nl) n
Finnish: jäänne (fi), jäännös (fi), jäämä (fi), ripe (fi)
French: reste (fr) m
Georgian: ნარჩენი (narčeni)
German: Rest (de) m, Überbleibsel (de) n, Relikt (de) n, Überrest (de)
Greek:
Ancient: λεῖμμα n (leîmma), λείψανον n (leípsanon)
Hebrew: זֵכֶר‎ (he) m (zékher)
Hungarian: maradék (hu)
Italian: resto (it) m, rimanenza (it) f, avanzo (it) m, residuo (it) m
Latin: reliqua f
Macedonian: о́статок m (óstatok)
Maori: whakamakere, toenga, mōrea
Norwegian:
Bokmål: levning m
Portuguese: resto (pt) m, sobra (pt) f, restante (pt) m
Russian: оста́ток (ru) m (ostátok)
Spanish: resto (es) m, restante m, reliquia f, despojo (es) m, residuo (es) m, retazo (es) m
Swedish: rest (sv) c
Ukrainian: за́лишок m (zályšok)

remaining fabric at the end of the bolt

unsold end of piece goods

remnant (not comparable)

(archaic) Still left; remaining.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Lewis the Ninth Setteth Forward against the Turks; the Occasion of His Journey, and His Attendants”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], OCLC 913016526, book IV, page 187:
  [H]is vow was made in his ſickneſſe, whileſt reaſon was ſcarce as yet in the peaceable poſſeſſion of his mind, becauſe of the remnant dregs of his diſeaſe: […]
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], OCLC 5634253, book II (Pleasure), page 461:
  It bid Her feel / No future Pain for Me; but inſtant wed / A Lover more proportion'd to her Bed; / And quiet dedicate her remnant Life / To the juſt duties of an humble Wife.