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No. Dubrovnik’s 1377 law required thirty days; the interval was later extended to forty, which supplied the enduring name.
/ˈkwɔːrənˌtiːn/ · noun · verb
Isolation used to prevent contagion, named through a Romance expression for a period of forty.
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Documents the thirty-day isolation rule that preceded the forty-based term.
Dubrovnik legislationDocuments the later Italian forty-day practice and word history.
History of quarantineThe timeline explicitly separates the first isolation law from the forty-based word.