| Originally, the common-literary word track, which had the meaning of a trace or mark left by something, was borrowed in the XV century from the middle French trac, which, in turn, goes back to the middle German trek- dragging, pulling, transportation, travel. Originally this term in the meaning of a line of metal rails for wheeled vehicles was registered in 1805. |
As a result of the etymological analysis, it is clear that the semantic content of the term definition is close to the meaning of the base word. A common semantic component of the theatre term and a word of the common-literary language is the meaning "a line of metal rails". |
