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quadrāgintā · Latin
numeral · Latin
Reading: Historical reading not established
Forty; four tens.. Forty; four tens.
No secure word-specific date — Batch 05 inspected the retained lexical evidence for quadrāgintā (Latin) and did not find a stronger field-specific witness. A contextual period, object history or institutional date is not substituted for a lexical witness.
Latin reference region — Glottolog language reference point; not an origin, borrowing site or territorial boundary.
The English entry relates quarantine to Latin quadrāgintā, “forty,” through Romance and Medieval Latin forms. English > Etymology
Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna are described as 40-day-period forms, including a Lenten context. English > Etymology
Glottolog supplies the reference coordinates for Latin. LanguageTable row lati1261
quarentena · Medieval Latin
noun · Medieval Latin
Reading: Historical reading not established
A forty-day period; Lent in the cited lexical account.. A forty-day period; Lent in the cited lexical account.
No secure word-specific date — Batch 05 inspected the retained lexical evidence for quarentena (Medieval Latin) and did not find a stronger field-specific witness. A contextual period, object history or institutional date is not substituted for a lexical witness.
Latin reference region — Glottolog language reference point; not an origin, borrowing site or territorial boundary.
The English entry relates quarantine to Latin quadrāgintā, “forty,” through Romance and Medieval Latin forms. English > Etymology
Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna are described as 40-day-period forms, including a Lenten context. English > Etymology
Italian quarantena is described as a Venetian form of quarantina; Treccani likewise calls quarantèna originally Venetian for quarantina. English > Etymology; Italian quarantena
Glottolog supplies a reference coordinate for Latin. LanguageTable row lati1261; Name, Latitude, Longitude
quarantena · Venetian
noun · Venetian
Reading: Historical reading not established
A forty-day period; later the ship-isolation term.. A forty-day period; later the ship-isolation term.
No secure word-specific date — Batch 05 inspected the retained lexical evidence for quarantena (Venetian) and did not find a stronger field-specific witness. A contextual period, object history or institutional date is not substituted for a lexical witness.
Venetian reference region — Glottolog language reference point; not an origin, borrowing site or territorial boundary.
Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna are described as 40-day-period forms, including a Lenten context. English > Etymology
Italian quarantena is described as a Venetian form of quarantina; Treccani likewise calls quarantèna originally Venetian for quarantina. English > Etymology; Italian quarantena
Glottolog supplies the reference coordinates for Venetian. LanguageTable row vene1258
quarantina · Italian
noun · Italian
Reading: Historical reading not established
A forty-day period or quarantine of a ship.. A forty-day period or quarantine of a ship.
No secure word-specific date — Batch 05 inspected the retained lexical evidence for quarantina (Italian) and did not find a stronger field-specific witness. A contextual period, object history or institutional date is not substituted for a lexical witness.
Italian reference region — Glottolog language reference point; not an origin, borrowing site or territorial boundary.
Italian quarantena is described as a Venetian form of quarantina; Treccani likewise calls quarantèna originally Venetian for quarantina. English > Etymology; Italian quarantena
Merriam-Webster also presents an Italian quarantena meaning quarantine of a ship, from quaranta, forty. Noun > Word History > Etymology
The CDC account dates Ragusa’s 1377 separation rule to 30 days and says the practice later spread and was extended to 40 days. Article body, paragraphs 2–3
English quarantine includes a 40-day period, ship isolation, broader disease-control restrictions and enforced isolation; Merriam-Webster reports a first known use in 1617 for the noun sense 1. Noun > definitions and Word History
Glottolog supplies the reference coordinates for Italian. LanguageTable row ital1282
quarantaine · French
noun · French
Reading: Historical reading not established
A period of forty days; a qualified contributor to English quarantine.. A period of forty days; a qualified contributor to English quarantine.
No secure word-specific date — Batch 05 inspected the retained lexical evidence for quarantaine (French) and did not find a stronger field-specific witness. A contextual period, object history or institutional date is not substituted for a lexical witness.
French reference region — Glottolog language reference point; not an origin, borrowing site or territorial boundary.
Merriam-Webster presents quarantine as partly modified from French quarantaine, from Old French quarente and Latin quadraginta. Noun > Word History > Etymology
English quarantine includes a 40-day period, ship isolation, broader disease-control restrictions and enforced isolation; Merriam-Webster reports a first known use in 1617 for the noun sense 1. Noun > definitions and Word History
Glottolog supplies the reference coordinates for French. LanguageTable row stan1290
quarantine · English
noun · English
Reading: KWOR-ən-teen
A period or state of isolation intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests.. A period or state of isolation intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests.
1617 · first known English noun use — Merriam-Webster’s first-known-use date for the defined noun sense; not a policy date or transfer date.
English reference region / Britain — Glottolog language reference point; not an origin, borrowing site or territorial boundary.
Merriam-Webster presents quarantine as partly modified from French quarantaine, from Old French quarente and Latin quadraginta. Noun > Word History > Etymology
Merriam-Webster also presents an Italian quarantena meaning quarantine of a ship, from quaranta, forty. Noun > Word History > Etymology
The CDC account dates Ragusa’s 1377 separation rule to 30 days and says the practice later spread and was extended to 40 days. Article body, paragraphs 2–3
English quarantine includes a 40-day period, ship isolation, broader disease-control restrictions and enforced isolation; Merriam-Webster reports a first known use in 1617 for the noun sense 1. Noun > definitions and Word History
The English entry records /ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/, /ˈkɔɹ.ən.tin/ and Received Pronunciation variants. English > Pronunciation
Glottolog supplies the reference coordinates for English. LanguageTable row stan1293
quadrāgintā → quarentena: derivation, qualified. The Medieval Latin 40-day forms are presented as developments from the Latin numeral family. English > EtymologyEnglish > Etymology
quarantena → quarantina: borrowing, qualified. Treccani and Wiktionary preserve a Venetian quarantena alongside Italian quarantina; the exact chronology is unresolved. English > Etymology; Italian quarantena
quarantina → quarantine: semantic-change, qualified. The forty-day ship-isolation term becomes the broader English disease-control and enforced-isolation word. English medical sense: The health meaning develops around the practice but is not dated by the 1448 policy or by the 1617 first-known-use entry. Noun > definitions and Word HistoryArticle body, paragraphs 2–3