recent
English
/ˈɹiːsənt/
adj
Definitions
- Having happened a short while ago.
- Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
- Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
- (sciences) Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.
- (geology) Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin recēns (recent).
Origin
Latin
recēns
Gloss
recent
Kanji
近
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonrecent English
- nonrecently English
- recentish English
- recentism English
- recently English
- recentness English
- semirecent English
- recentem, recens, recēns Latin
- recēns Latin
- rezent German
- recente Italian
- recent Dutch, Flemish
- récemment French
- récent French
- reciente Spanish, Castilian
- rece Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- recent Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- recenta Ido
- aratsi Aromanian
- resan Haitian, Haitian Creole