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"recent" in seven languages

Meaningrecent

Spanish

reciente

/reˈθjente/

learned

French

récent

/ʁesɑ̃/

learned

Italian

recente

/reˈtʃɛnte/

learned

Portuguese

recente

/heˈsẽtʃi/

learned

Romanian

recent

/reˈtʃent/

learned

Catalan

recent

/rəˈsen/

learned

English

recent

/ˈɹisənt/

from Latin/French · Latin RECENS (via French récent)

English → ItalianrecentrecenteCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

RECENTEM (nom. RECENS)‘fresh, new’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A learned word with one shape in all four; the c before e gives the usual three sounds (θ, s, tʃ). The adverbs line up too: recientemente, récemment, recentemente.

English relatives: recently

Sound laws at work

C before E and I

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In a sentence

  • esSon fotos recientes.
  • frCe sont des photos récentes.
  • itSono foto recenti.
  • ptSão fotos recentes.
  • roSunt poze recente.
  • caSón fotos recents.
  • enThese are recent photos.

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