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Quarantine — Word History
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 35supportsprobable
quarantine → quarantaine
Present-Day English → French · borrowing
- 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 / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster editors
Word HistoryRomance transmission and English sense.
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quarantineSOURCE-REPORTED
quarantine
English noun lexicographic first-use record
OPEN WITNESS 12 ↗051
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
quarante
Frenchnumeral relative: forty
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stage 3supports
French and Italian donors; English reception
Traces French quarantaine and Italian quarantena from “forty” and reports 1617 for the English noun’s first known use in the forty-day sense.
Word History: Etymology and noun First Known Use · broadstage 4supports
Global quarantine and biosecurity uses
Documents ship, person, goods, pest, place, activity, communication, and enforced-isolation uses that no longer require a forty-day duration.
Current noun and verb definitions · global070
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