Definitions
place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons
Word origin
From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (forming distributive adjectives), from Latin quadrāgintā (“four tens, 40”).
Used in a sentence
“Querentyne is where a man dyeth seisyd of a maner place and other landis where of the wyfe ought to be indowed, than the woman shall hold the maner place by .xl. days within which tyme her dower shalbe to her assyned.”
“Quarantain of the King, is a Truce of forty Days appointed by S. Louis; during which it was expressly forbid to take any Revenge of the Relation or Friends of People.”
“Forty days, called the King's quarantain, were allowed the friends or relations of a principal in a private war to grant or find security.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Medical isolation”10 letters
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