recent

See also: récent and Recent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rē'sənt, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːsənt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːsənt
• Hyphenation: re‧cent

Adjective

recent (comparative more recent, superlative most recent)

1. Having happened a short while ago.

   Synonym: (rare, obsolete) nudiustertian

   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 22 February 2016, page 193:

     Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

2. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
3. Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.

   The cause has several hundred recent donors.

   I met three recent graduates at the conference.

4. (sciences) Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.
   • 2020 October 4, Evan Gough, “We Now Have Proof a Supernova Exploded Perilously Close to Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago”, in Science Alert:

     Finding it now means it was produced in more recent times, in astronomical terms.

Derived terms

• Recent
• recently
• recent memory

Translations

having happened a short while ago

• Afrikaans: vars (af)
• Albanian: vonë (sq)
• Arabic: أَخِير‎ (ʔaḵīr), جَدِيد‎ (ar) (jadīd)
• Armenian: նորերս պատահած (norers patahac), վերջին (hy) (verǰin)
• Azerbaijani: təzə (az)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: неотдавнашен (bg) (neotdavnašen)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: fresc (ca), recent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 最近 (zeoi³ gan⁶), 近排 (gan⁶ paai⁴, gan⁶ paai^4-2), 呢排 (ni¹ paai⁴, ni¹ paai^4-2, nei¹ paai⁴, nei¹ paai^4-2)

  Mandarin: 最近 (zh) (zuì jìn)

• Cornish: a-dhiwedhes
• Czech: nedávný m
• Danish: frisk, nylig
• Dutch: recent (nl)
• Esperanto: lasta (eo), lastatempa
• Estonian: äsjane (et), hiljutine
• Faroese: feskur
• Finnish: tuore (fi), äskeinen (fi), äskettäinen, hiljattainen, taannoinen (fi), viimeaikainen (fi)
• French: récent (fr)
• Galician: recente (gl)
• Georgian: ახალი (axali), ახლანდელი (axlandeli), უახლესი (uaxlesi), ბოლოდროინდელი (bolodroindeli)
• German: neu (de), kürzlich (de), rezent (de), frisch (de)
• Greek: πρόσφατος (el) (prósfatos)

  Ancient: πρόσφατος (prósphatos)

• Haitian Creole: resan
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: אחרון‎ (he) (aharon)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: nem régi (literally “not old”) (used as a fixed phrase), legutóbbi (hu) (literally “latest”), friss (hu) (literally “fresh”)
• Icelandic: nýlegur (is)
• Ido: recenta (io)
• Indonesian: baru saja
• Irish: deireanach
• Italian: recente (it)
• Japanese: 最近 (ja) (さいきん, saikin)
• Khmer: ថ្មី (km) (tməy)
• Korean: 최근 (ko) (choegeun)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: recens, nūperus
• Latvian: nesens
• Limburgish: recènte
• Lithuanian: naujas (lt)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: സമീപകാല (samīpakāla)
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: саяхан (mn) (sajaxan)
• Norman: récent
• Norwegian: nylig
• Papiamentu: fresku
• Persian: تازه‎ (fa) (tâza), اخیر‎ (fa) (axir)
• Polish: ostatni (pl), świeży (pl), niedawny (pl)
• Portuguese: recente (pt)
• Punjabi: ^{(please verify)} [script needed] (hul)
• Quechua: musuq
• Romanian: recent (ro)
• Russian: неда́вний (ru) (nedávnij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: недавни, нов

  Roman: nedavni (sh), nov (sh)

• Slovak: nedávny
• Spanish: reciente (es)
• Sranan Tongo: fersi
• Swahili: karibuni (sw)
• Swedish: ny (sv), nylig (sv)
• Tagalog: kararaan
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: ఇటీవలి (te) (iṭīvali)
• Thai: เร็วๆ นี้ (reo-reo née)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yeni (tr)
• Ukrainian: оста́нній (uk) (ostánnij), неда́вній (nedávnij), нещода́вній (neščodávnij)
• Uyghur: débaya
• Vietnamese: gần đây (vi)
• Welsh: diweddar (cy)
• West Frisian: farsk
• Yiddish: אַנומלטיק‎ (anumltik), פֿריש‎ (frish), לעצט‎ (letst), נײַ‎ (nay)
• Yucatec Maya: aakʼ

Noun

recent (plural recents)

1. (computing, graphical user interface) A recently viewed or accessed item.
   • 2012, Jason R. Rich, Your iPad 2 at Work, page 308:

     Obviously, the first time you launch this app, your Recents list is empty.

Anagrams

• Center, Centre, center, centre, tenrec

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recentem. First attested 1653. See also rentar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /rəˈsent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /rəˈsen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /reˈsent/

Adjective

recent (masculine and feminine plural recents)

1. recent

Derived terms

• recentment

Related terms

• rentar

Further reading

• “recent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “recent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “recent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French récent, from Middle French [Term?], from Latin recēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rəˈsɛnt/, /reːˈsɛnt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: re‧cent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Adjective

recent (comparative recenter, superlative recentst)

1. recent

Inflection

Inflection of recent
uninflected	recent
inflected	recente
comparative	recenter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		recent	recenter	het recentst het recentste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	recente	recentere	recentste
	n. sing.	recent	recenter	recentste
	plural	recente	recentere	recentste
definite		recente	recentere	recentste
partitive		recents	recenters	—

Derived terms

• recentelijk

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French récent, from Latin recēns. Doublet of rece, which was inherited.

Adjective

recent m or n (feminine singular recentă, masculine plural recenți, feminine and neuter plural recente)

1. recent

Declension

Declension of recent

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	recent		recentă	recenți	recente
	definite	recentul		recenta	recenții	recentele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	recent		recente	recenți	recente
	definite	recentului		recentei	recenților	recentelor