English
recent
Recent comes from Latin recēns ‘new, recent, lately, newly, green, refreshed’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ken-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ken-‘new’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErecēns‘new’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012recent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ken-‘new’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErecēns‘new’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012recent
Earliest quotation: 2012, Jason R. Rich, Your iPad 2 at Work: “Obviously, the first time you launch this app, your…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ken- ‘new, fresh’
Today it means
adj Having happened a short while ago.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ken- / recent