quarantine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
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: quarantining
form: quarantined
form: quarantined
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: Venice began quarantining incoming ships for 40 days in 1448 to prevent further outbreaks of bubonic plague.
text: We... sent our boat on board a French man of war lying in the bay, with a letter for our consul; captain Murray not wishing to have any communication with the shore, for fear of being quarantined at the next port he went to.
ref: 1803 Feb. 17, Maryland Gazette, Letter
text: On sanitary grounds Morocco could certainly show better cause for placing a quarantine on Spain than Spain for quarantining Morocco.
ref: 1866 July 26, The Times, p. 10
glosses: To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
examples: text: International travelers must quarantine themselves at their own expense in a designated hotel for 14 days upon arrival.
text: The Mauretania... is expected to ‘quarantine’ at New York at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
ref: 1928 Aug. 7, Daily News, p. 7
text: She brought her dog home, and that's a big step. Dogs have to quarantine for six months in England.
ref: 1995 May 12, Daily Oklahoman
text: Australians returning from overseas have been required to quarantine for 14 days since 15 March, with mandatory stays inside hotel rooms enforced since 29 March.
ref: 2020 April 10, The Guardian
glosses: To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
examples: text: It has just been announced that Norfolk, Va., and Holly Springs, Miss., have quarantined against Memphis.
ref: 1879 July 22, The Times, p. 12
glosses: To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
examples: text: J.F.K. "quarantined" Cuba rather than blockading it to avoid needless escalation of the conflict.
text: ...where I should be detained, Quarantined, smoaked & vinegard...
ref: 1804 Dec. 20, Washington Irving, Letter
text: No computer system or even individual PC is safe from a virus unless it is isolated—quarantined, in effect—from all others.
ref: 1988 Jan. 31, Los Angeles Times, p. 1
glosses: Synonym of isolate more generally.
synonyms: word: isolate more generally
examples: text: Did any moral taint hang about me that quarantined my entrance into its circle?
ref: 1850 July 27, Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, p. 49
text: The parliament of the island... quarantined Great Britain against sending any potatoes into the island.
ref: c. 1912, E.H. Grubb et al., Potato, page 479:
glosses: Synonym of restrict.
synonyms: word: restrict
Derived terms: quarantinable
quarantined
quarantiner
self-quarantine