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recens.

new, recent, lately, newly, green, refreshed

6 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

adj[ˈrɛ.kẽːs]Classical-Latin[ˈrɛː.t͡ʃens]

  1. new, recent, lately, newly, green, refreshed

    declension-3 · one-termination

  2. fresh, lively

    declension-3 · one-termination

  3. young, just whelped

    declension-3 · one-termination

  4. vigorous, not exhausted

    declension-3 · one-termination

  5. just (done, made, appeared, came to be), that has not long existed, newly devised

    declension-3 · one-termination

  6. modern (said of writers)

    declension-3 · one-termination
Where this word comes from

re- + Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“new, fresh”), with a semantic development to "rise freshly, come up, begin", also seen in cognates such as Old Irish cinim (“to rise”) and Old Church Slavonic начѧти (načęti, “to begin”), въчѧти (vŭčęti, “to begin”). Classical cognates include Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”) (whence the prefix caeno- or ceno-) and Sanskrit कनीन (kanī́na, “young, youthful”).

adv[ˈrɛ.kẽːs]Classical-Latin[ˈrɛː.t͡ʃens]

  1. lately, recently

    not-comparable
Where this word comes from

re- + Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“new, fresh”), with a semantic development to "rise freshly, come up, begin", also seen in cognates such as Old Irish cinim (“to rise”) and Old Church Slavonic начѧти (načęti, “to begin”), въчѧти (vŭčęti, “to begin”). Classical cognates include Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”) (whence the prefix caeno- or ceno-) and Sanskrit कनीन (kanī́na, “young, youthful”).

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