quarantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.ən.tin/
ipa: /ˈkwɑɹ.ən.tin/
ipa: /ˈkwɒɹ.ən.tiːn/
ipa: /ˈkwɒrn̩tiːn/
ipa: /ˈkwɒɹ.ən.taɪn/
Forms: form: quarantines
form: Quarantine
form: quarentine
form: quarantin
form: quaranteen
form: quarantain
form: quarantaine
form: quarrentine
form: quarantene
form: quarentene
form: quarentyne
form: querentyne
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Now the Question seems to lye thus, where lay the Seeds of the Infection all this while? How came it to stop so long, and not stop any longer? Either the Distemper did not come immediately by Contagion from Body to Body, or if it did, then a Body may be capable to continue infected, without the Disease discovering itself, many Days, nay Weeks together, even not a Quarantine of Days only, but Soixantine, not only 40 Days but 60 Days or longer.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year, page 235:
glosses: A period of 40 days, particularly
examples: text: Querentyne is where a man dyeth seisyd of a maner place and other landis where of the wyfe ought to be indowed, than the woman shall hold the maner place by .xl. days within which tyme her dower shalbe to her assyned.
ref: c. 1523, John Rastell, Exposiciones Terminorum Legum Anglorum, fol. 4v
topics: law
glosses: A period of 40 days, particularly
The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.
glosses: A period of 40 days, particularly
The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
examples: text: Quarantain of the King, is a Truce of forty Days appointed by S. Louis; during which it was expressly forbid to take any Revenge of the Relation or Friends of People.
ref: 1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia, "Quarantaine"
text: Forty days, called the King's quarantain, were allowed the friends or relations of a principal in a private war to grant or find security.
ref: 1818, Alexander Ranken, The History of France, volume IV, page 233:
glosses: A period of 40 days, particularly
A 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight.
examples: text: The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.
text: From Toulon... Our Gallyes which were upon the point of finishing their Quarantaine, and entering into this Port, have been hindred from it by th'arrival of three others that were out a roaming.
ref: 1649, Moderate Intelligencer, No. 236, p. 2279
text: Making of all ships coming from thence... to perform their Quarantine (for 30 days as Sir Richard Browne expressed it... contrary to the import of the word; though in the general acceptation, it signifies now the thing, not the time spent in doing it).
ref: 1663 Nov. 26, Samuel Pepys, Diary, Vol. IV, p. 399
text: This dreadful malady might be annihilated by making all the dogs in Great Britain perform a kind of quarantine, by shutting them up for a certain number of weeks.
ref: 1796, Edward Darwin, Zoonomia, volume II, page 265:
text: The lady stared; but a single question elicited the fatal truth—the vessel was under quarantine, and once on board there was no quitting it.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 137–138:
text: ‘... these people are always howling. Never happy otherwise... the French people. They’re always at it. As to Marseilles, we know what Marseilles is. It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed. It couldn’t exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other—victory or death, or blazes, or something.’
‘Allong and marshong, indeed. It would be more creditable to you, I think, to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business, instead of shutting ‘em up in quarantine!’
‘Tiresome enough,’ said the other.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 12:
text: The lepers often sought a voluntary death as the only escape from their perpetual quarantine.
ref: 1859, John Mounteney Jephson et al., Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany, page 77:
text: Formerly great stress was laid on the value of quarantine; all plant imports were grown in a quarantine ground under the supervision of a Government botanist until it was certain that they had no disease.
ref: 1922, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 12th ed., Vol. XXX, p. 925
text: 2. Tsai called on the public not to incite hatred or blame others for the epidemic. She then offered thanks to everyone who has dutifully followed home quarantine and self-health management protocols.
ref: 2020 March 20, Keoni Everington, “Next 14 Days Are Critical for Taiwan's Wuhan Virus Battle: Tsai”, in Taiwan News:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Now treating Sandwich seems the fittest choice
For Spain, there to condole and to rejoyce:
He meets the French, but to avoid all harms,
Slips into Groine, Embassies bears no Arms.
There let him languish a long Quarrentine,
And ne're to England come, till he be clean.
ref: 1667, John Denham, The Second Advice to a Painter, pages 13–14:
text: What I wish to put under Quarantine are family events—& all allusion thereto past—present—or to come.
ref: 1816 Nov. 27, Lord Byron, Letter
glosses: A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
examples: text: They bring wood, millet, rye, barley, and a little wheat to the quarantine to barter with the Cossaks for salt.
ref: 1806 April, Reginald Heber, Journal
glosses: A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
examples: text: When a great power establishes diplomatic quarantine against them it is well not to go too far on a course on which they appear to be embarking with a light heart.
ref: 1891 Dec. 16, New York Times, p. 1
text: President Roosevelt today challenged the effectiveness of a policy of neutrality in keeping the United States at peace and advocated instead a collective ‘quarantine’ of aggressor nations.
ref: 1937 Oct. 6, New York Herald Tribune, p. 1
text: To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carries.
ref: 1962 Oct. 22, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Address to the American People
topics: government
politics
glosses: A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
examples: text: Also included is Canary, a ‘quarantine’ program for use as a sample to test for a virus by pairing it with new or suspect programs.
ref: 1988 Mar. 21, InfoWorld
text: At least one expert says... that a quarantine can be futile if the software is infected with a time-activated virus.
ref: 1989 Feb. 2, American Banker, p. 8
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: If they click on the link then they're added to your approved senders list and their message is moved to your inbox; if they don't, the message stays in quarantine.
ref: 2004 Dec., .Net, No. 131, p. 71
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
Synonyms: sense: place for quarantine
word: lazaret
sense: place for quarantine
word: lazaretto
sense: place for quarantine
english: fig.
translation: fig.
word: lazar house
Hyponyms: sense: place for quarantine
word: leprosarium
sense: place for quarantine
english: leprosy
translation: leprosy
word: lazar house
Derived terms: community quarantine
free quarantine
K-Quarantine
quarantine-breaking
quarantine flag
quarantine ground
quarantine kennel
quarantine officer
quarantine station
queerantine