quarantine

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A period of 40 days, particularly
2. (countable, historical, uncountable) A period of 40 days, particularly
3. (countable, historical, uncountable) A period of 40 days, particularly
4. (countable, historical, uncountable) A period of 40 days, particularly
5. (countable, uncountable) A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
7. (countable, uncountable) A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
9. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc.
10. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.

Verb

1. (transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
2. (intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
4. (figuratively, transitive) Synonym of isolate more generally.
5. (figuratively, transitive) Synonym of restrict.

Name

Alternative letter-case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.

Conceptes

quarantena

quarentena

Sinònims

isolation

isolate

sequester

seclude

seclusion

segregation

separation

separate

insulate

blockage

medical inspection

detain

detention

expiation

expurgation

forties

immure

interception

intern

lazaretto

limit

localize

purgation

purification

reclusion

regulations

restrict

rope in

sequestrate

shut off

cordon off

rope off

stopping a ship

lustration

insulation

contain

forty-some

blockade

cabin

catharsis

circumscribe

concentrate

confine

confinement

cut off

delimit

deprivation

Traduccions

quarantaine

quarantena

cuarentena

Quarantäne

quarentena

quarantaine

καραντίνα

karantina

απομόνωση

contumacia

κάθαρση

quarentenar

afzondering

Isolierung

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: quarentine

In summary

From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (forming distributive adjectives), from Latin quadrāgintā (“four tens, 40”).
In reference to French politics, calque of French quarantaine after edicts of Louis IX. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the Roosevelt administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later Kennedy administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the missile crisis.