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NODE / 0043attestedFrench

quarantaine

a period or group of forty; later health isolation

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Middle / early modern French
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Indo-European / Romance
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Part of the layered path by which the health term entered English.

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GO DEEPERborrowingprobable
Italian / early Italian · Italian / Venetian

quarantena

a period of forty days; isolation period

SOUND
French quarantaine and Italian quarantena are parallel Romance formations around forty.
MEANING
A group or period of forty specialized as a disease-control interval.
SCHOLAR
French and Italian historical lexicography
CONFIDENCE
probable — The health sense developed within Mediterranean practice, not in a single clean handoff.
Etymologia: Quarantinesupportshistorical overview

Italian forty-day origin.

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A Brief Biological History of Quarantine: Modern use of an ancient toolsupportsquarantine history

Mediterranean practice and terminology.

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Present-Day English · 1663–today

quarantine

isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease

SOUND
English quarantine reflects a French and Italian Romance transmission with adapted spelling and stress.
MEANING
A defined period of isolation became the general act or state of protective isolation.
SCHOLAR
Merriam-Webster editors
CONFIDENCE
probable — References weight French and Italian stages differently.
Quarantine — Word HistorysupportsWord History

Romance transmission and English sense.

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DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted bookestablished

The PESTE entry in the first edition of the Académie française dictionary uses quarantaine for imposed isolation after travel from a place suspected of plague.

on fait faire quarantaine à ceux qui viennent d’un lieu soupçonné de peste

quarantine dossier · recorded as quarantaine
Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France; digitized by BnF Gallica · ark:/12148/bpt6k1280391q, f. 233WITNESS RECORD ↗Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 2 (M–Z), première édition ↗FACSIMILE ↗
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