recent

Forms

recent m or n (feminine singular recentă, masculine plural recenți, feminine/neuter plural recente)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French récent, also borrowed from Latin recēns (“fresh, new”), a 19th-century loan for which the dictionaries give both sources.^[2][3][4][5] The first edition of the neologism dictionary gave French and Italian recente.^[6]

The same Latin word was inherited as rece “cold”, with Aromanian arațe, Megleno-Romanian rați and Istro-Romanian rǫce.^[7][1][8] The Latin adjective is probably a compound of re- and a stem meaning “young, first”, from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“new, fresh”).^[9][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Negulici's dictionary of neologisms has it in 1848, with the Latin recens and the gloss “of late, new, fresh”.^[10] MDA2 and the DLR cite a dictionary abbreviated PROT.-POP. before it.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

The word kept the Latin and French sense “that happened or appeared not long ago”.^[2][4] Costinescu (1870) adds the adverb recent “lately”, and adverbial use is common in modern texts.^[11][4] In Muntenia it is recorded as an adverb meaning “at once, immediately”.^[12]

Timeline

• 1848 – recent “new, fresh” in Negulici's dictionary.^[10]
• 1870 – adjective and adverb in Costinescu.^[11]
• 1886 – recent “fresh, new” in Barcianu's Romanian–German dictionary.^[13]

Meanings

Adjective

1. recent: that happened or appeared not long ago; that dates from a short time ago; new, fresh.^[2][3]
2. (adverbial) Lately, recently: o carte recent apărută “a recently published book”.^[4][14]

Related words

• rece

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 927
3. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 666
4. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. recent
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. recent
6. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. recent
7. ^ Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. rece
8. ^ Gabinschi, Marcu (2001), Dicționar de dublete etimologice ale limbii române, 2nd ed., Chișinău: Litera, p. 150
9. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
10. ^ a b Negulici, I. D. (1848), Vocabular romînesc de toate vorbele streine întroduse pînă acum în limba romînească și de toate cuvintele ce s-ar mai putea introduce încă, București, p. s.v. recent
11. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 405
12. ^ Marin, Maria; Mărgărit, Iulia, Glosar dialectal. Muntenia, București: Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti”, p. 368
13. ^ Barcianu, Sava Popovici (1886), Dicționar român-germân și germân-român, revised by D. P. Barcianu, part I: român-germân, Sibiu: Institut tipografic, p. 531
14. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1105