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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, new, fresh, from Latin recēns, recent-; see ken- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French recent, French récent =Provencal recent =Spanish reciente =Portuguese Italian recente, from Latin recen (t-)s, fresh, new; (a) in one view, from re- + -cen (t-)s, supposed to be allied to W. cynt, first, earliest, Sanskrit kanīyāṅs, smaller, kanistha, smallest (cf. Russian po-chinatǐ, begin): (b) in another view, orig. present participle from a root *rec =Zend √ raç, come (cf. recens a victoria, ‘just coming from a victory’; Rhodo recentes Romam venerunt, ‘ they came to Rome just from Rhodes,’ etc.: see def. 5).

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  1. [L. recens, -entis: cf. F. récent.]

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