English

subrecent

From sub- + recent.

Formed from sub- + recent

Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *ken- ‘new’

Latin recēns ‘new’

Today it means

adj From an indefinite time period from the end of Pleistocene to the Holocene.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / subrecent