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See also: récent
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis). As classifier for a geological epoch coinciding with human presence (“Recent era”) introduced by Charles Lyell in 1833.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
recent (comparative more recent, superlative most recent)
- Having happened a short while ago.
- Synonym: nudiustertian (rare, obsolete)
- 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist[1], 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.
- Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
- 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.
- (sciences) Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.
- (obsolete, geology, astronomy, capitalized) Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.[2]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
having happened a short while ago
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Noun[edit]
recent (countable and uncountable, plural recents)
- (obsolete, geology, capitalized) An earlier term for the Holocene.
- 2012, Lydia Pyne; Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
- He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never accepted. The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible.
References[edit]
- ^ Charles Lyell (1833) Principles of Geology, volume III, book IV, page 385: “All formations, whether igneous or aqueous, which can be shown by any such proofs to be of a date posterior to the introduction of man, will be called Recent.”
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. quotes "P. Gibbard & T. van Kolfschoten in F. Gradstein et al. Geol. Time Scale 2004 xxii. 451/2 The term 'Recent' as an alternative to Holocene is invalid and should not be used."
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin recens, recentem. First attested 1653[1]. See also rentar.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
recent (masculine and feminine plural recents)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “recent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
Further reading[edit]
- “recent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “recent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “recent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French récent, from Middle French [Term?], from Latin recēns.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
recent (comparative recenter, superlative recentst)
Inflection[edit]
| 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 | — | |
Derived terms[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
recent m or n (feminine singular recentă, masculine plural recenți, feminine and neuter plural recente)
Declension[edit]
Declension of recent
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | recent | recentă | recenți | recente | ||
| definite | recentul | recenta | recenții | recentele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | recent | recente | recenți | recente | ||
| definite | recentului | recentei | recenților | recentelor | |||
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