different between quarantine vs quarantaine

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??.?n.ti?n/, /?kw??.?n.ta?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k(w)??.?n.tin/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /?kw??.?n.tin/

Etymology 1

From Middle English quarentine, from Medieval Latin quarent?na (“forty days”), from Latin quadr?gint? (“forty”).

Alternative forms

• quarantain, quarentene (obsolete)

Noun

quarantine (plural quarantines)

1. The desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible.
2. A grace period of 40 days during which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's home, regardless of the inheritance.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian quarantina (“forty days”), the period Venetians customarily kept ships from plague-ridden countries waiting off port, from quaranta (“forty”), from Latin quadr?gint?.

Noun

quarantine (countable and uncountable, plural quarantines)

1. A sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed or feared to be infected.

2. Such official detention of a ship at or off port due to suspicion that it may be carrying a contagious disease aboard.
3. A certain place for isolating persons suspected of suffering from a contagious disease.
4. A certain period of time during which a person is isolated to determine whether they've been infected with a contagious disease.

5. (by extension) Any rigorous measure of isolation, regardless of the reason.

6. A record system kept by port health authorities in order to monitor and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
7. (computing) A place where email messages or other files which are suspected of harboring a computer virus are stored.

Derived terms

• quarantine flag

Translations

Verb

quarantine (third-person singular simple present quarantines, present participle quarantining, simple past and past participle quarantined)

1. To retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
2. To put in isolation as if by quarantine

Derived terms

• quarantinable
• quarantined
• quarantiner
• self-quarantine

Translations

Further reading

• quarantine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Italian

Noun

quarantine f

1. plural of quarantina

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French quarantaine, from Italian quarantena, from Latin quadr?gint?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.r?n?t??.n?/
• Hyphenation: qua?ran?tai?ne
• Rhymes: -??n?

Noun

quarantaine f (plural quarantaines, diminutive quarantainetje n)

1. A quarantine, sanitary measure of isolating infected people; its duration or site
2. (figuratively) Any isolation, exclusion

Derived terms

• quarantainehaven
• quarantaineregel
• quarantainevlag

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: karantina

See also

• schutkring

French

Etymology

quarante +? -aine, the medical sense a calque of Italian quarantena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.???.t?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

quarantaine f (plural quarantaines)

1. A number or group of or about forty.
2. One's forties (period of life between ages 40 and 49): une femme dans la quarantaine.
3. (medicine) quarantine (isolation to prevent contamination)

Related terms

• quarante

Descendants

• ? Danish: karantæne
• ? Dutch: quarantaine
• ? German: Quarantäne

See also

• (numeric): centaine, cinquantaine, dizaine, douzaine, huitaine, quinzaine, soixantaine, trentaine, vingtaine
• (medical prevention): cordon sanitaire m, quatorzaine f

Further reading

• “quarantaine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• arnaquaient