recent

See also: récent

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rē'sənt, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːsənt/

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Adjective

recent (comparative more recent, superlative most recent)

1. Having happened a short while ago.
   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:

     Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

2. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
3. Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.

   The cause has several hundred recent donors.

   I met three recent graduates at the conference.

4. In long-view scientific usage, particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy, may refer to events not "recent" in everyday usage, thousands or even millions of years ago.
5. In geology and astronomy, "Recent", capitalised, has often been used as an exact synonym for "Holocene", particularly pre-21st century.

Synonyms

• nudiustertian (rare, obsolete (hapax legomenon))

Derived terms

• recently
• recent memory

Translations

having happened a short while ago

• Afrikaans: vars
• Albanian: vonë (sq)
• Arabic: أَخِير‏‎ (ʾaḵīr), جَدِيد‏‎ (ar) (jadīd)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: təzə (az)
• Bulgarian: неотдавнашен (bg) (neotdavnašen)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: fresc (ca), recent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最近 (zh) (zuì jìn)

• Cornish: a-dhiwedhes
• Czech: nedávný m
• Danish: frisk, nylig
• Dutch: recent (nl)
• Esperanto: lasta (eo), lastatempa
• Estonian: äsjane (et), hiljutine
• Faroese: feskur
• Finnish: tuore (fi), äskeinen (fi)
• French: récent (fr)
• Galician: recente (gl)
• Georgian: ახალი (axali), ახლანდელი (axlandeli), უახლესი (uaxlesi), ბოლოდროინდელი (bolodroindeli)
• German: jüngst (de), neu (de), kürzlich (de)
• Greek: πρόσφατος (el) (prósfatos)
• Haitian Creole: resan
• Hebrew: אחרון‏‎ (he) (aharon)
• Hungarian: nem régi
• Ido: recenta (io)
• Indonesian: baru saja
• Irish: deireanach
• Italian: recente (it)
• Japanese: 最近 (ja) (さいきん, saikin)
• Khmer: ថ្មី (km) (tməy)
• Korean: 최근 (ko) (chwigeun)

• Latvian: nesens
• Limburgish: recènte
• Lithuanian: naujas (lt)
• Mongolian: саяхан (mn) (sajahan)
• Norman: récent
• Norwegian: nylig
• Papiamentu: fresku
• Persian: تازه‏‎ (fa) (tāza), اخیر‏‎ (fa) (axir)
• Polish: ostatni (pl), świeży (pl) m, niedawny (pl)
• Portuguese: recente (pt)
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can: hul
• Romanian: recent (ro)
• Russian: неда́вний (ru) (nedávnij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: недавни, нов

  Roman: nedavni (sh), nov (sh)

• Slovak: nedávny
• Spanish: reciente (es)
• Sranan Tongo: fersi
• Swahili: karibuni (sw)
• Swedish: ny (sv), nylig (sv)
• Tagalog: kararaan
• Telugu: ఇటీవలి (te) (iṭīvali)
• Thai: เร็วๆ นี้ (reo-reo née)
• Turkish: yeni (tr)
• Ukrainian: оста́нній (uk) (ostánnij), неда́вній (nedávnij)
• Uyghur: débaya
• Vietnamese: gần đây (vi)
• Welsh: diweddar (cy)
• West Frisian: farsk
• Yiddish: אַנומלטיק‏‎ (anumltik), פֿריש‏‎ (frish), לעצט‏‎ (letst), נײַ‏‎ (nay)
• Yucatec Maya: aakʼ

Anagrams

• Center, Centre, center, centre, tenrec

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin recens, recentem. First attested 1653. See also rentar.

Adjective

recent (masculine and feminine plural recents)

1. recent

Related terms

• rentar

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Adjective

recent (comparative recenter, superlative recentst)

1. recent

Inflection

Inflection of recent
uninflected	recent
inflected	recente
comparative	recenter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		recent	recenter	het recentst het recentste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	recente	recentere	recentste
	n. sing.	recent	recenter	recentste
	plural	recente	recentere	recentste
definite		recente	recentere	recentste
partitive		recents	recenters	—