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{{also|Trace|tracé|traçe|tracę|trące|trącę}}
==English==
{{wikipedia}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/tɹeɪs/|[tʃɹeɪs]}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-trace.ogg|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-trace.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|eɪs|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|trace}}, {{m|enm|traas}}, from {{der|en|fro|trace|t=an outline, track, trace}}, from the verb (see below).

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# An [[act]] of [[#Verb|tracing]].
#: {{ux|en|Your cell phone company can put a '''trace''' on your line.}}
# An [[enquiry]] sent out for a [[missing]] [[article]], such as a letter or an express package.
# A [[mark]] left as a [[sign]] of [[passage]] of a [[person]] or [[animal]].
#: {{syn|en|track|trail}}
# A very [[small]] [[amount]], often [[residual]], of some [[substance]] or [[material]].
#: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:modicum}}
#: {{ux|en|There are '''traces''' of chocolate around your lips.}}
#: {{ux|en|All of our chocolates may contain '''traces''' of nuts.}}
#* {{RQ:Allingham China Governess|chapter=7|passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional '''trace''' of past cultures.}}
#* {{quote-song|en|author=w:Taylor Swift;w:Imogen Heap|authorlabel=no|title={{w|Clean (song)|Clean (Taylor's Version)}}|album=w:1989 (Taylor's Version)|date=27 October 2014|date_published=27 October 2023|artist=Taylor Swift|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKAXdSe8MYM|text=And by mornin'<br>Gone was any '''trace''' of you, I think I am finally clean}}
# {{lb|en|electronics}} A [[current]]-[[carry]]ing [[conductive]] [[pathway]] on a [[printed circuit board]].
# An [[informal]] [[road]] or [[prominent]] [[path]] in an [[arid]] [[area]].
# One of two [[strap]]s, [[chain]]s, or [[rope]]s of a [[harness]], extending from the [[collar]] or [[breastplate]] to a [[whippletree]] attached to a [[vehicle]] or thing to be drawn; a [[tug]].
# {{lb|en|engineering}} A connecting [[bar]] or [[rod]], [[pivot]]ed at each [[end]] to the end of another [[piece]], for [[transmit]]ting [[motion]], especially from one [[plane]] to another; specifically, such a piece in an [[organ stop]] action to transmit motion from the [[trundle]] to the [[lever]] actuating the stop slider.
# {{lb|en|fortification}} The [[ground plan]] of a [[work]] or works.
# {{lb|en|geometry}} The [[intersection]] of a [[plane]] of [[projection]], or an original plane, with a [[coordinate]] plane.
# {{senseid|en|matrix}} {{lb|en|mathematics}} The sum of the [[diagonal]] elements of a square [[matrix]].
# {{lb|en|grammar}} An [[empty]] [[category]] occupying a position in the [[syntactic]] [[structure]] from which something has been moved, used to explain [[construction]]s such as [[wh-movement]] and the [[passive]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1999|author=Georges Rebuschi; Laurice Tuller|title=The Grammar of Focus|page=290
|passage=[S]upposing the NP has raised in (18), the potential bindees are the clitic and the '''trace''' of the focalized NP, neither of which qualifies as a syntactic variable.}}
# {{lb|en|programming}} A [[sequence]] of [[instruction]]s, including [[branch]]es but not [[loop]]s, that is executed for some [[input]] [[data]].

=====Derived terms=====
{{col-auto|en|{{l|en|downtrace}}, {{l|en|uptrace}}|contact trace|contact-trace|fault trace|foliar trace|leaf trace|stack trace|trace fossil|trace horse|trace italienne|trap and trace|trace element|trace scheduling|leave no trace|time trace
|{{l|en|without trace}}, {{l|en|without a trace}}}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|act of tracing}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|opsporen|n}}, {{t+|nl|nazoeken|n}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jäljitys}}, {{t+|fi|seuranta}}, {{t+|fi|jäljittäminen}}
* German: {{t+|de|aufzeichnen}}, {{t+|de|aufspüren}}, {{t+|de|nachspüren}}, {{t+|de|nachziehen}}, {{t+|de|verfolgen}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|követés}}, {{t|hu|nyomon követés}}, {{t+|hu|nyomkövetés}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|calcar}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|bulmak}}, {{t+|tr|iz sürmek}}, {{t+|tr|izlemek}}, {{t+|tr|takip etmek}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|mark left as a sign of passage}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|gjurmë|f}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|أَثَر|m}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|iz}},{{t+|az|ləpir}},{{t+|az|əsər}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|эҙ}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|след|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|следа́|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|痕跡|tr=hénjì}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|stopa|f}}
* Danish: {{t|da|spor|n}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|spoor|n}}
* Erzya: {{t|myv|эльге}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|spuro}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jälki}}
* French: {{t+|fr|trace|f}}
* Friulian: {{t|fur|olme|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Spur|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|ίχνος|n}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|nyom}}, {{t+|hu|nyomdok}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|spor|n}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|jejak}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|orma}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|pedsaka|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|跡|tr=あと, ato}}, {{t+|ja|痕跡|tr=こんせき, konseki}}
* Kashubian: {{t|csb|szlach|m}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|із}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|ដាន}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|흔적(痕跡)}}, {{t+|ko|자국}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|из}}
* Lao: {{t|lo|ຮອຍ}}
* Latin: {{t|la|vestīgium|n}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|трага|f}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|makenu}}, {{t|mi|mōnā}}, {{t|mi|mokenu}}, {{t|mi|paparahi}}, {{t|mi|makatea}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|spor|n}}
* Old Church Slavonic:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|cu|слѣдъ|m}}
* Old East Slavic: {{t|orv|слѣдъ|m}}
* Ossetian: {{t|os|фӕд}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|رسم|tr=resm, resim}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|اثر|tr=asar}}, {{t+|fa|رد|tr=rad}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|ślad|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|vestígio|m}}, {{t+|pt|rastro|m}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|urmă|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|след|m}}
* Sanskrit: {{t|sa|पदं|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|тра̑г|m}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|trȃg|m}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|stopa|f}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|sled|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|huella|f}}, {{t+|es|rastro|m}}, {{t+|es|traza|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|spår|n}}
* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|dasto}}
* Tajik: {{t|tg|асар}}, {{t|tg|из}}
* Tatar: {{t+|tt|эз}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|รอย}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|iz}}
* Turkmen: {{t|tk|yz}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|слід|m}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|ئىز}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|iz}}, {{t+|uz|asar}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|dấu}}, {{t+|vi|vết}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|שפּור|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|residue}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|оста́тък|m}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|sporen|n-p}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jäämä}}, {{t+|fi|jälki}}
* German: {{t+|de|Spur|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|nyom}}, {{t+|hu|maradvány}}, {{t+|hu|maradék}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|остаток|m}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|bekas}}
* Old Javanese: {{t|kaw|wĕkas}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|оста́ток|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|very small amount}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|նշույլ}}, {{t+|hy|հետք}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|следа́|f}}, {{t|bg|смътна представа}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|少少}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|少量}}, {{t+|cmn|少許}}, {{t+|cmn|微量}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|häivä}}, {{t+|fi|hitunen}}, {{t+|fi|hiven}}, {{t+|fi|jäämä}}, {{t+|fi|pilkahdus}}
* French: {{t+|fr|traces|f-p}}
* German: {{t+|de|Spur|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|nyom}}, {{t|hu|[[elenyésző]]/[[minimális]] [[mennyiség]]}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|pedsaka|f}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kanehe}}, {{t|mi|ngarengare}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(electronics) electric current-carrying conductive pathway}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|لِوْحَة دَارَاتُ مَطَبُوعَة|tr=lawḥat dārāt maṭbūʕa}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|пъте́ка|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t-needed|cmn}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|johdin}}, {{t+|fi|veto}}
* German: {{t|de|Leiterbahn|f}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|kretskort|n}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|cablaj imprimat|n}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|mönsterkort|n}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|baskılı devre kartı}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|informal road or prominent path in an arid area}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|polku}}, {{t+|fi|ura}}, {{t+|fi|kulkureitti}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|csapás}}, {{t+|hu|ösvény}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|one of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|streng|f}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|vetohihna}}, {{t|fi|vetoliina}}, {{t|fi|vetoköysi}}, {{t|fi|hinausköysi}}
* French: {{t+|fr|trait|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Strang|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|hám}}, {{t+|hu|istráng}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|rahe}}
* Italian: {{t|it|tirella|f}}, {{t+|it|tirante|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|tirante|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(mathematics) sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jälki}}
* German: {{t+|de|Spur|f}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|spor|n}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|traza|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Telugu: {{t+check|te|ఆనవాలు}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|tracen}}, from {{der|en|fro|tracer}}, {{m|fro|trasser||to delineate, score, trace", also, "to follow, pursue}}, probably a conflation of {{der|en|VL.|*tractiō||to delineate, score, trace}}, from {{der|en|la|trahere||to draw}}; and Old French {{m|fro|traquer||to chase, hunt, pursue}}, from {{m|fro|trac||a track, trace}}, from {{der|en|dum|treck}}, {{m|dum|treke||a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, expedition}}. More at {{l|en|track}}.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To follow the [[trail]] of.
#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=9|passage=I feel thy power {{...}} to '''trace''' the ways / Of highest agents.|year=1873}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1792|author=w:William Cowper|title=On a Similar Occasion for the Year 1792
|passage=Happy the mortal, who has '''traced''' effects <br>To their first cause}}
# To follow the history of.
#* '''1684-1690''', {{w|Thomas Burnet}}, ''Sacred Theory of the Earth''
#*: You may '''trace''' the deluge quite round the globe.
#* {{quote-journal|en| date=July 19, 2011| author=Ella Davies| title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex| work=BBC| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14122050| passage=They '''traced''' the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[draw]] or [[sketch]] lightly or with care.
#: {{ux|en|He carefully '''traced''' the outlines of the old building before him.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
# {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To copy; to imitate.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1647|author={{w|John Denham (poet)|John Denham}}|title=To Sir Richard Fanshaw
|passage=That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of '''tracing''' word by word, and line by line.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|obsolete}} To [[walk]]; to [[go]]; to [[travel]].
#* {{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene|book=VI|canto=III|stanza=29|passage=Not wont on foote with heavy armes to '''trace'''.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing|III|i|passage=We do '''trace''' this alley up and down.}}
# {{lbl|en|computer|transitive}} To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|test and trace}}
* {{l|en|tracing}}
* {{l|en|track and trace}}
*{{l|en| trace down}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to follow the trail of}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|проследявам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|resseguir}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|opsporen}}, {{t+|nl|spoorzoeken}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|spuri}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jäljittää}}, {{t+|fi|jäljestää}}, {{t|fi|jäljetä}}, {{t+|fi|seurata}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ἰχνεύω}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|követ}}, {{t+|hu|nyomon követ}}
* Latin: {{t|la|vestīgō}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakataki}}, {{t|mi|takitaki}}, {{t|mi|kanoi}} {{qualifier|refers to genealogy}}, {{t|mi|whakaparu}} {{qualifier|refers to one's line of descent}}, {{t|mi|aru}}, {{t|mi|tauaru}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|namierzać|impf}}, {{t+|pl|namierzyć|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|rastrear}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|rastrear}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to follow the history of}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|проследявам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jäljittää}}, {{t+|fi|seurata}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|nyomon követ}}, {{t+|hu|visszakövet}}, {{t+|hu|felkutat}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakataki}}, {{t|mi|kanoi}}, {{t|mi|tararere}} {{qualifier|refers specifically to a family tree}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to draw or sketch}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|чарці́ць|impf|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|be|начарці́ць|pf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|чертая}}, {{t+|bg|скицирам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|traçar}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|hahmotella}} {{q|lightly}}; {{t+|fi|jäljentää}} {{q|with care}}
* French: {{t+|fr|tracer}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|megrajzol}}, {{t+|hu|lerajzol}}, {{t+|hu|előrajzol}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|چكمك|tr=çekmek}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|traçar}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|trazar}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to copy onto a sheet of superimposed paper}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|прекопирвам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|calcar}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|pauzovat|impf}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|overtrekken}}, {{t+|nl|calqueren}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|paŭsi}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[piirtää]] [[läpi]]}}, {{t+|fi|jäljentää}}
* French: {{t+|fr|calquer}}
* German: {{t+|de|abpausen}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|átrajzol}}, {{t+|hu|kopíroz}}, {{t|hu|átkopíroz}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|kalquar}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|tāwhai}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|calcar}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|''(obsolete in English)'' to copy; to imitate}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jäljitellä}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|''(obsolete in English)'' to walk; to go; to travel}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kulkea}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|''(obsolete in English)'' to walk over; to pass through; to traverse}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kulkea}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to follow the execution of a program line by line}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jäljittää}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=acert|Carte|reäct|acter|Certa|carte|crate|cater|caret|react|Cater|creat|recta}}

{{topics|en|Horse tack}}

==French==

===Etymology===
From the verb {{m|fr|tracer}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-trace.ogg}}
* {{rhymes|fr|as|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|f}}

# trace
#* {{quote-book|fr|year=1864|author=Jules Verne |title=Voyage au centre de la Terre|passage=Mais non, Axel, nous retrouverions au moins nos propres '''traces''', et je ne vois rien...   |source=[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4791]|translation=No, Axel, we should at least find our own '''traces''' and I see nothing-- }}
# [[track]]
# {{lb|fr|mathematics}} {{l|en|trace}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|fr|trace de freinage}}

===Verb===
{{head|fr|verb form}}

# {{inflection of|fr|tracer||1//3|s|pres|ind//sub|;|2|s|impr}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}

===Anagrams===
* {{l|fr|caret}}, {{l|fr|carte}}, {{l|fr|créât}}, {{l|fr|écart}}, {{l|fr|terça}}

==Galician==

===Verb===
{{head|gl|verb form}}

# {{gl-verb form of|trazar}}

==Italian==

===Pronunciation===
{{it-pr|tràce}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{der|it|la|thrāx|thrācem}}, from {{der|it|grc|Θρᾷξ}}.

====Adjective====
{{it-adj}}

# {{lb|it|literary}} {{demonym-adj|it|Thrace|t=Thracian}}

====Noun====
{{it-noun|mfbysense}}

# {{lb|it|historical}} {{demonym-noun|it|Thrace|t=Thracian}}
#: {{syn|it|tracio}}

====Noun====
{{it-noun|m|-}}

# the [[Thracian]] [[language]]

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|it|tracio}}
* {{l|it|Tracia}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{der|it|la|thraex|thraecem}}, from {{der|it|grc|Θρᾷξ}}.

====Noun====
{{it-noun|m}}

# {{lb|it|historical|Ancient Rome}} a [[gladiator]] bearing [[Thracian]] equipment

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|it|a=acert|-crate|Creta|carte|certa|cetra|creta|tacer}}

==Jamaican Creole==

===Noun===
{{jam-noun|-}}

# Idle talk; bullshit.
#* {{quote-song|jam|date=2011-06|artist=w:Vybz Kartel|title=Big Bad and Brave (Duh Weh Yuh Wah Fi Duh)|url=https://www.youlistener.com/lyrics/vybz-kartel-duh-weh-yuh-wa-fi-do-big-bad-brave|passage=Mi big bad and brave bwoy. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. Yuh sey a your place. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. And yuh nuh watch face. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. It just '''trace''' yuh a trace.|translation=I'm big, bad and brave, boy. Do whatever you want to do to me. You say to meet you at your place to fight. Do whatever you want to do to me. Any you don't care about my reputation. Do whatever you want to do to me. It's just '''bullshit''' that you're chatting.}}

===Verb===
{{jam-verb}}

# To talk or chat idly; to bullshit.
#* {{quote-song|jam|date=2007-01-01|artist=Blak Rino|album=Riddim Driven: Shadowz(2008)|track=14|title=Ay Ya Ay Ya|url=https://genius.com/Blak-ryno-ay-ya-ay-ya-lyrics|passage=The war him '''trace'''. Man haffi run if it a squeeze and press, yeah.|translation=He '''talks idly''' about war but he has to run if I squeeze and press the trigger of my gun.}}
#* {{quote-song|jam|date=2011-06|artist=w:Vybz Kartel|title=Big Bad and Brave (Duh Weh Yuh Wah Fi Duh)|url=https://www.youlistener.com/lyrics/vybz-kartel-duh-weh-yuh-wa-fi-do-big-bad-brave|passage=Mi big bad and brave bwoy. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. Yuh sey a your place. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. And yuh nuh watch face. Duh weh yuh wah fi duh. It just trace yuh a '''trace'''.|translation=I'm big, bad and brave, boy. Do whatever you want to do to me. You say to meet you at your place to fight. Do whatever you want to do to me. Any you don't care about my reputation. Do whatever you want to do to me. It's just bullshit that you're '''chatting'''.}}

==Middle English==

===Etymology 1===
From {{bor|enm|fro|trace}}, from {{m|fro|tracer}}, {{m|fro|tracier}}.

====Alternative forms====
* {{alter|enm|traas|trase}}

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|enm|/ˈtraːs(ə)/}}

====Noun====
{{enm-noun|traces}} {{tlb|enm|mostly Late ME}}

# A [[trail]], [[track]] or [[road]]; a [[pathway]] or [[route]]:
## An track that isn't demarcated; an informal pathway.
## A trace; a trail of evidence left of something's presence.
# One's [[lifepath]] or [[decisions]]; one's chosen [[actions]].
# Stepping or movement of feet, especially during dancing.
# {{lb|enm|rare|heraldry}} A straight mark.

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|enm|tracen}}
* {{l|enm|tracyng}}

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|en|trace}}
* {{desc|sco|trace}}
* {{desc|yol|threesh|alts=1}}

=====References=====
* {{R:MED Online|entry=trāce |pos=n.(1)|id=MED46657|accessdate=2018-09-18}}

===Etymology 2===

====Verb====
{{head|enm|verb}}

# {{alt form|enm|tracen}}

{{C|enm|Dance|Gaits|Roads}}

==Old French==

===Etymology===
From the verb {{m|fro|tracier}}, {{m|fro|tracer}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|fro|/ˈtɾat͡sə/}}

===Noun===
{{fro-noun|f}}

# {{l|en|trace}} (markings showing where one has been)

====Descendants====
* {{desc|enm|trace|bor=1}}
** {{desc|en|trace}}
* {{desc|fr|trace}}

==Portuguese==

===Verb===
{{head|pt|verb form}}

# {{pt-verb form of|traçar}}

==Spanish==

===Verb===
{{head|es|verb form}}

# {{es-verb form of|trazar}}