quarantine

Etymology
From and  via, , , and , via proposed  + , from. .

In reference to French politics, calque of after edicts of. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later  administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the.

Noun

 * 1) A period of 40 days, particularly
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) * c. 1523, John Rastell, Exposiciones Terminorum Legum Anglorum, fol. 4v:
 * 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.
 * 1)  The 40-day period of isolation required after  at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) * 1728, Ephraim Chambers, ', "Quarantaine'''":
 * Quarantain of the King, is a Truce of forty Days appointed by ; during which it was expressly forbid to take any Revenge of the Relation or Friends of People.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) * 1649, Moderate Intelligencer, No. 236, p. 2279:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1663 Nov. 26,, Diary, Vol. IV, p. 399:
 * 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).
 * 1) * 1922, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 12th ed., Vol. XXX, p. 925:
 * 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.
 * 1)  A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
 * 2) * 1816 Nov. 27,, Letter:
 * What I wish to put under Quarantine are family events—& all allusion thereto past—present—or to come.
 * 1) A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
 * 2) * 1806 April,, Journal:
 * They bring wood, millet, rye, barley, and a little wheat to the quarantine to barter with the Cossaks for salt.
 * 1)  A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
 * 2) * 1891 Dec. 16, , p. 1:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1937 Oct. 6, , p. 1:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1962 Oct. 22,, Address to the American People:
 * To halt, 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.
 * 1)  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..
 * 2) * 1988 Mar. 21, InfoWorld:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1989 Feb. 2, American Banker, p. 8:
 * At least one expert says... that a quarantine can be futile if the software is infected with a time-activated virus.
 * 1)  The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
 * 2) * 2004 Dec., .Net, No. 131, p. 71:
 * 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.
 * To halt, 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.
 * 1)  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..
 * 2) * 1988 Mar. 21, InfoWorld:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1989 Feb. 2, American Banker, p. 8:
 * At least one expert says... that a quarantine can be futile if the software is infected with a time-activated virus.
 * 1)  The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
 * 2) * 2004 Dec., .Net, No. 131, p. 71:
 * 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.

Translations

 * French:
 * Latin: quadragēna, quarentena, quarentīna, carēna






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 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حَجْر صِحِّيّ, كَرَنْتِينَة
 * Algerian Arabic: حَجْر
 * Hijazi Arabic: حَجِر, حَجر صِحِّي
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: karantin
 * Belarusian: каранты́н, каранці́н
 * Bulgarian: каранти́на
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: enysekter
 * Czech:
 * Danish: karantæne
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kvaranteno
 * Estonian: karantiin
 * Faroese: sóttverja, sóttarhald
 * Finnish:
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 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კარანტინი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: הֶסְגֵּר, קָרַנְטִינָה, בידוד
 * Hindi: क्वारंटीन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sóttkví
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: coraintín
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: карантин
 * Korean: 검역(檢疫)
 * Kyrgyz: карантин
 * Latin: quarantanna
 * Latvian: karantīna
 * Lithuanian: karantinas
 * Macedonian: каранти́н
 * Malay: pupuh, , karantina
 * Maori: taratahi
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 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каранте́на, карантин
 * Roman:, karantin
 * Slovak: karanténa
 * Slovene: karantena
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: karantini
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kuwarentenas, pahiwalay
 * Tajik: карантин
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: karantin
 * Ukrainian: каранти́н
 * Urdu: قرنطینہ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: phong tỏa kiểm dịch, phong tỏa dịch bệnh ; thời gian cách ly, thời gian kiểm dịch ; ,


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 * Danish: karantæne
 * Dutch: ,
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 * Czech:
 * Danish: karantæne
 * Dutch:, quarantainehaven
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Vietnamese: khu cách ly, khu kiểm dịch


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Verb

 * 1)  To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
 * 2) * 1803 Feb. 17, Maryland Gazette, Letter:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1866 July 26, The Times, p. 10:
 * On sanitary grounds Morocco could certainly show better cause for placing a quarantine on Spain than Spain for quarantining Morocco.
 * 1)  To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
 * 2) * 1928 Aug. 7, Daily News, p. 7:
 * The Mauretania... is expected to ‘quarantine’ at New York at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
 * 1) * 1995 May 12, Daily Oklahoman:
 * She brought her dog home, and that's a big step. Dogs have to quarantine for six months in England.
 * 1) * 2020 April 10, :
 * 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.
 * 1)  To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
 * 2) * 1879 July 22, The Times, p. 12:
 * It has just been announced that Norfolk, Va., and Holly Springs, Miss., have quarantined against Memphis.
 * 1)   more generally.
 * 2) * 1804 Dec. 20,, Letter:
 * ...where I should be detained, Quarantined, smoaked & vinegard...
 * 1) * 1988 Jan. 31, , p. 1:
 * No computer system or even individual PC is safe from a virus unless it is isolated—quarantined, in effect—from all others.
 * 1) * 1850 July 27, Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, p. 49:
 * Did any moral taint hang about me that quarantined my entrance into its circle?
 * No computer system or even individual PC is safe from a virus unless it is isolated—quarantined, in effect—from all others.
 * 1) * 1850 July 27, Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, p. 49:
 * Did any moral taint hang about me that quarantined my entrance into its circle?
 * Did any moral taint hang about me that quarantined my entrance into its circle?

Translations

 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: mettre en quarantaine
 * Greek: βάζω σε καραντίνα
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Armenian: կարանտինի ենթարկել
 * Czech: dát do karantény
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kvaranteni
 * Estonian: karantiini panema, isoleerima
 * Finnish: panna karanteeniin, asettaa karanteeniin,
 * Georgian: კარანტინში მოქცევა, კარანტინს დაქვემდებარება
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, karanténba helyez, karanténba zár
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: quarantenar
 * Italian:
 * Lao: ກັກກັນ, ກັກໂຕ, ກັກດ່ານ
 * Persian: قرنطینه کردن
 * Polish: poddać kwarantannie
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: staviti u karantenu
 * Spanish: cuarentenar
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,

Proper noun

 * : the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.