different between confinement vs committal

English

Etymology

From French confinement; synchronically analyzable as confine +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?fa?nm?nt/
• Hyphenation: con?fine?ment

Noun

confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)

1. The act of confining or the state of being confined.
2. (dated) Lying-in, time of giving birth.

   Synonyms: labour, birthing
3. lockdown

Translations

Further reading

• “confinement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

French

Etymology

From confiner +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.fin.m??/

Noun

confinement m (plural confinements)

1. confinement
2. The act of quarantining, of putting into quarantine.

   Synonym: mise en quarantaine

3. quarantine
4. lockdown

5. containment

Synonyms

• déconfinement

See also

• isolement

Further reading

• “confinement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

commit +? -al (noun) or committee +? -al (adjective)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m?t?l/

Noun

committal (countable and uncountable, plural committals)

1. The act of entrusting something to someone.
2. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
3. The act of perpetrating an offence.
4. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

Alternative forms

• commital

Related terms

• commit
• commitment
• noncommittal
• committal hearing

Translations

Adjective

committal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a committee.
2. Of or relating to commitment.

Further reading

• committal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• committal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.