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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1425|origins=la recēns}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈriː.sənt/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|recent|t=new, fresh]], [[bor|la|recēns|t=lately done or made; new, fresh, young]], accusative recentem,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(AHD 2000) also through [[m|frm|récent]].^(SOED 2002)^(MWU 2024)^(Hoad 1986) Latin recēns is of uncertain origin,^(Barnhart 1988) perhaps from [[m|la|re-]] and [[ine-pro|*ken-|t=fresh, new, young]],^(Etymonline)^(AHD 2000) the source also of Greek [[m|grc|καινός|tr=kainós|t=new]] and Sanskrit kanīna “young”.^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Of foods, “fresh, newly made”: the early 15th century,^(Etymonline) probably before 1425.^(Barnhart 1988) The OED's first quotation, “lately done or made”, is from 1533.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ “Belonging to a time comparatively near the present” is from 1622^(OED 1989) or the 1620s,^(Etymonline) and “fresh, not yet decayed” from 1632.^(OED 1989) “Not long past”, of a point of time, is from 1823.^(OED 1989) In geology ''Recent'', with a capital, is the present epoch, from 1830^(OED 1989) or 1833.^(OED 1989) ''Recentness'' is from the 1670s, while ''recency'' (1610s) was common in the 19th century, according to the OED.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1425 – fresh, newly made.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1533 – lately done.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1622 – near the present.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1632 – fresh.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1823 – not long past.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1830 – the Recent geological epoch.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Having happened or begun a short time ago.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # Belonging to a time not long past; [[modern]].^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # ''(geology)'' Of the [[Holocene]] epoch.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[recency]]

+ * [[recently]]

+ * [[recentness]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}