How to spell recent

Recent is spelled R-E-C-E-N-T. Re plus cent: the soft C of cent, then E, N, T.

hear itre·cent/'ricənt/adjectiveRules and real life

What it means: Of the immediate past.

In a sentence: I read a recent book about dinosaurs.

Same family: recently, recency, modern, current. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Recent” comes from Latin *recens*, meaning "fresh" or "new". In geology and archaeology, it was adopted as a technical time label for the very latest slice of Earth’s history.

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