different between prison vs quod

English

Etymology

From Middle English prisoun, prison, a borrowing from Old French prison, from Latin prehensi?nem, accusative singular of prehensi?, from the verb prehend?. Doublet of prehension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??z?n/, [p?????zn?]
• Rhymes: -?z?n

Noun

prison (countable and uncountable, plural prisons)

1. A place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.

   Synonyms: bridewell, big house; see also Thesaurus:prison

   Coordinate terms: gaol, jail, slammer, hoosegow

   Hypernyms: correctional facility, correctional institution

   Hyponyms: panopticon, dungeon

2. (uncountable) Confinement in prison.

   Synonym: imprisonment

3. (colloquial, figuratively) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

prison (third-person singular simple present prisons, present participle prisoning, simple past and past participle prisoned)

1. (transitive) To imprison.

Translations

Further reading

• prison at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• porins, prions, proins, ripons, spinor

French

Etymology

From Old French prison, inherited from Latin prehensi?, prehensi?nem, from prehend?. Doublet of préhension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i.z??/

Noun

prison f (plural prisons)

1. prison

Derived terms

• aimable comme une porte de prison
• emprisonner
• prison dorée
• prisonnier

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• prions, ripons

Norman

Etymology

From Old French prison, from Latin prehensi?, prehensi?nem (“seizing, apprehending, arresting, capturing”).

Noun

prison f (plural prisons)

1. (Jersey) prison

Related terms

• emprisonner, mettre en prison (“to imprison”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• prisoun (less common)
• prisun (less common)

Etymology

From Latin prehensi?, prehensi?nem, from prehend?.

Noun

prison f (oblique plural prisons, nominative singular prison, nominative plural prisons)

1. prison

Noun

prison m (oblique plural prisons, nominative singular prisons, nominative plural prison)

1. prisoner

Derived terms

• prisonnier

Descendants

• ? Middle English: prisoun
  • English: prison
  • Scots: preeson
• French: prison
• Norman: prison (Jersey)

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of quadrangle; originally (17th century) referring to the quadrangles of Newgate Prison, London.

Noun

quod (countable and uncountable, plural quods)

1. (countable) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison.
   • 1863, Punch, quoted in 1995, Seán McConville, English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to Death, page 69,

     […] not the poorer classes merely, but the rich will be desirous to enjoy the mingled luxury and comfort of a gaol: and we shall hear of blasé Swells become burglars and garotters as a prelude to a prison, and, instead of taking tours for restoration of their health, recruiting it more cheaply by a residence in quod.

   • 1878, John Wrathall Bull, Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia, page 264,

     […] and declined their escort, desiring to be conducted to “quod” by the gallant South Australian police, […] .

   • 2000, R.I.C. Publications, Workbook E: Society and Environment, page 48,

     From 1855-1903 a chapel was built, the boat shed and holding cell constructed, Government House was constructed as a summer residence for the Governor and the Quod (slang for prison) was constructed.

   • 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 202,

     Pity McNamara?s still doing his stretch in the quod, but he?ll be out soon.

2. (uncountable, Australia, slang) Confinement in a prison.
   • c. 1894, Acquaintance of Norman Lindsay, quoted in 2005, James Cockington, Banned: Tales From the Bizarre History of Australian Obscenity, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, paperback ?ISBN, page 7,

     I don?t suppose you'll get more than a couple of months? quod for them.

Translations

Alternative forms

• quad

Verb

quod (third-person singular simple present quods, present participle quodding, simple past and past participle quodded)

1. (slang, archaic) To confine in prison.

Etymology 2

Verb

quod

1. (obsolete) Quoth.
   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Summoner?s Prologue and Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2009, Robert Boenig, Andrew Taylor (editors), The Canterbury Tales: A Selection, page 190,

     “No fors,” quod he, “but tel me al youre grief.”

   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, 1868, The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period, Volume 8, Part 1, page 422,

     “Why,” quod her friend, “would ye not willingly have gone with your company, if God should so have suffered it?”

   • 1908, James Gairdner, Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey, 2010, Cambridge University Press, page 416,

     “And therefore I have granted to their request,” quod the King; […] .

Latin

Etymology

Inflection of qu? (“who, which”), corresponding to Proto-Indo-European *k?od, whence also Old English hwæt (English what).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?od/, [k??d?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwod/, [kw?d?]

Pronoun

quod

1. nominative neuter singular of qu?
2. accusative neuter singular of qu?

Conjunction

quod

1. which
2. because
3. until
4. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) that (in indirect speech)

Related terms

• quid

Descendants

References

• quod in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quod in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quod in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quod in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.