English

frontstretch

From front + stretch.

A compound of front + stretch

Latin frōns ‘forehead’

Old French front ‘forehead’

Middle English front

English front

Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- ‘stiff, rigid’

Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan ‘to stretch, make taut’

Old English streċċan ‘to stretch, extend’

Middle English strecchen ‘to stretch out, extend’

Today it means

noun The straight (or gently curved) part of a racetrack, running track, etc. where the race begins.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / frontstretch