'current-related' originates from English, formed from 'current' + '-related'; 'current' ultimately from Latin 'currere' ('to run'), via Latin 'currens' ('running') > sense of 'flow' and then 'present', and 'related' from Latin 'relatus', past participle of 'referre' ('to bring back, to relate').

'current' entered English via Old French 'curant/courant' (from Latin 'currere'), gaining the electrical sense in modern scientific English; 'related' (Middle English from Latin through Old French) has been used productively to form compound adjectives with '-related'. These elements combined in modern technical English to yield 'current-related'.

Initially used chiefly in technical writing to mean 'related to electric current'; by extension, it is also used to mean 'related to what is current (the present time or situation)'.