A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Trace (Eng.noun):

1. a visible mark left by something in the past, sign, evidence; remnant, rudiment, vestige: rudimentum,-i (s.n.II), q.v., abl.sg. rudimento,‘ something unformed or undeveloped, something primitive; something arrested in an early stage of its development;’ vestigium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. vVestigio, ‘vestige, remnant, trace; ‘a trace or remnant of something which no longer exists;’ cf. reliquiae,-arum (pl.f.I), acc. pl. reliquias, abl.pl. reliquiis, remains, relics, remnants, leavings, rest, remainder; reliquum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. reliquo: that which is left behind, a remainder, residue;

- pileus juventute ater, aetate vestigio pallide griseo, pileus when young black, with age with a pale gray vestige (trace).

2. a small or barely observable amount: all of the above, but cf. nota,-ae (s.f.I) ‘a mark, spot, sign, token;’ cf. particula,-ae (s.f.I), ‘a particle, small piece;’ scintilla,-ae (s.f.I), ‘a faint trace, spark, glimmer;’ scintillula,-ae (s.f.I), ‘a little spark, trace;’ vestigium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. vestigio, ‘a trace or remnant of something which no longer exists;’

- scintillula virtutum, a tiny trace of virtues.

- vestigio coloris, with the vestige (trace) of color.

Note: tincture, a slight admixture or smattering of something, a trace (WIII): tinctura,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. tinctura, ‘a slight dyeing, a coloring;’ see pigment;

3. a track indicative of one’s course or line of travel: Leaf trace, a strand of vascular tissue connecting a leaf with the stem, etc.; trace-gap, the gap in the wood caused by the passage of a leaf-trace bundle in the stele (Jackson);

- strand (thread): filum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. filo; see filament, funiculus;

- cellulae leptoides fili foliaris, leptoid cells of the leaf trace (strand).

- cellulae hydroides fili foliaris, hydroid cells of the leaf trace.

Note: the use of ‘trace’ to indicate a track or road: the 500 mile long road from Nashville, Tennessee (USA) to Natchez, Mississippi, begun in 1806, for returning traders who had used the Mississippi River to float produce down to Natchez, called the Natchez Trace.

trace, vestigial, rudimentary: rudimentalis,-e (adj.B), rudimentarius,-a,-um (adj.A), �rudimentary, unfinished, incomplete, imperfect;�, abortivus,-a,-um (adj.A); vestigialis,-e (adj.B); see obsoletus,-a,-um (adj.A); see rudimentary.