different between quarantine vs confine

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??.?n.ti?n/, /?kw??.?n.ta?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k(w)??.?n.tin/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /?kw??.?n.tin/

Etymology 1

From Middle English quarentine, from Medieval Latin quarent?na (“forty days”), from Latin quadr?gint? (“forty”).

Alternative forms

• quarantain, quarentene (obsolete)

Noun

quarantine (plural quarantines)

1. The desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible.
2. A grace period of 40 days during which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's home, regardless of the inheritance.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian quarantina (“forty days”), the period Venetians customarily kept ships from plague-ridden countries waiting off port, from quaranta (“forty”), from Latin quadr?gint?.

Noun

quarantine (countable and uncountable, plural quarantines)

1. A sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed or feared to be infected.

2. Such official detention of a ship at or off port due to suspicion that it may be carrying a contagious disease aboard.
3. A certain place for isolating persons suspected of suffering from a contagious disease.
4. A certain period of time during which a person is isolated to determine whether they've been infected with a contagious disease.

5. (by extension) Any rigorous measure of isolation, regardless of the reason.

6. A record system kept by port health authorities in order to monitor and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
7. (computing) A place where email messages or other files which are suspected of harboring a computer virus are stored.

Derived terms

• quarantine flag

Translations

Verb

quarantine (third-person singular simple present quarantines, present participle quarantining, simple past and past participle quarantined)

1. To retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
2. To put in isolation as if by quarantine

Derived terms

• quarantinable
• quarantined
• quarantiner
• self-quarantine

Translations

Further reading

• quarantine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Italian

Noun

quarantine f

1. plural of quarantina

English

Etymology

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from Latin conf?nis.

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: k?nf?n?, IPA^(key): /k?n?fa?n/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nfa?n/
  • (US) enPR: kän?f?n, IPA^(key): /?k?nfa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Verb

confine (third-person singular simple present confines, present participle confining, simple past and past participle confined)

1. (obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 467:

     ‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’

2. (transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. [from 17th c.]
   • 1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface,^[1]

     He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

Translations

Noun

confine (plural confines)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.

Synonyms

• (limit): border, bound, limit

Derived terms

• confineless

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.fin/
• Homophones: confinent, confines

Verb

confine

1. first-person singular present indicative of confiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of confiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of confiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of confiner
5. second-person singular imperative of confiner

Italian

Etymology

From Latin conf?nis.

Noun

confine m (plural confini)

1. border, frontier
2. boundary

Synonyms

• limite

Related terms

• confinante
• confinare
• confinario
• confino

Latin

Adjective

c?nf?ne

1. nominative neuter singular of c?nf?nis
2. accusative neuter singular of c?nf?nis
3. vocative neuter singular of c?nf?nis

Portuguese

Verb

confine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of confinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of confinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of confinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of confinar

Spanish

Verb

confine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of confinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of confinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of confinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of confinar.