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quarantine
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)
- The desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible.
- 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)
- A sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed or feared to be infected.
- Such official detention of a ship at or off port due to suspicion that it may be carrying a contagious disease aboard.
- A certain place for isolating persons suspected of suffering from a contagious disease.
- A certain period of time during which a person is isolated to determine whether they've been infected with a contagious disease.
- (by extension) Any rigorous measure of isolation, regardless of the reason.
- A record system kept by port health authorities in order to monitor and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
- (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)
- To retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
- 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
- plural of quarantina
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quarantiner
English
Etymology
quarantine +? -er
Noun
quarantiner (plural quarantiners)
- One who quarantines.
- One who is quarantined.
- Synonym: quarantinee
quarantiner From the web:
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