English
Recent
Recent comes from English presence ‘Recent era’.
- English1500–presentpresence‘Recent era’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012Recent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentpresence‘Recent era’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012Recent
Earliest quotation: 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne: “He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never…”
The story
As classifier for a geological epoch coinciding with human presence (‘Recent era’) introduced by Charles Lyell in 1833.
Every English word from English presence
Today it means
name The Holocene.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English presence / Recent