recens

Latin

Etymology

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 (na-čęti, “to begin”), въчѧти (vŭ-čęti, “to begin”).

Classical cognates include Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”) and Sanskrit कनीन (kanī́na, “young, youthful”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.kens/, [ˈrɛ.kẽːs]

Adjective

recēns (genitive recentis); third declension

Inflection

Third declension.

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular		Plural
Nominative	recēns	recēns	recentēs	recentia
Genitive	recentis	recentis	recentium	recentium
Dative	recentī	recentī	recentibus	recentibus
Accusative	recentem	recēns	recentēs	recentia
Ablative	recentī	recentī	recentibus	recentibus
Vocative	recēns	recēns	recentēs	recentia

comparative: recentior, superlative: recentissimus

Adverb

recēns (not comparable)

lately, recently

Descendants

Aromanian: aratsi
English: recent
French: récent, récente
Ido: recenta
Italian: recente

Old French: roisant
Portuguese: recente, recém
Romanian rece
Spanish: reciente, recién

References

recens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
recens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
recens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a vivid recollection of a thing: recenti memoria tenere aliquid
- fresh troops relieve the tired men: integri et recentes defatigatis succedunt
recens in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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