recens

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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛ.kẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.t͡ʃens]

recēns (genitive recentis, comparative recentior, superlative recentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. new, recent

   Synonym: novus

   Antonyms: prīscus, prīstinus, senex, vetus, antīquus

2. fresh, lively
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     Ipsi recentes defessis succederent

     They themselves were substituting lively [soldiers] for the exhausted ones

3. young
4. vigorous

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

recēns (not comparable)

1. lately, recently

• “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^[1], 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “rĕcens”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 534
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “recens”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 1: A–B, page 139