Etymology

recurrency

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Today it means: The act or process of recurring; recurrence. Full definition →

Italian recorrenza
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  1. Italian · derived fromrecorrenza
  2. English todayrecurrency

Apparently from recurrent + -cy, although the former is first attested later in a general sense, originally after Italian recorrenza.

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