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START / NODE 42Present-Day English1663–today
quarantine
Isolation used to prevent contagion, named through a Romance expression for a period of forty.
“Quarantine preserves forty—but the first documented Dubrovnik isolation law required thirty days, not forty.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishquarantine
isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease
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French · Middle / early modern Frenchquarantainea period or group of forty; later health isolation
- SOUND CHANGE
- English quarantine reflects a French and Italian Romance transmission with adapted spelling and stress.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- A defined period of isolation became the general act or state of protective isolation.
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- probable — References weight French and Italian stages differently.
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