Quarantine

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Etymology

From Latin Quarantina.

Proper noun

Quarantine

  1. (dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation
    • a. 1500, The Pilgrymage and the Wayes of Jerusalem ("Stations of Jerusalem"), HM 144, :
      Than turned we vp in to Quarantene
      There oure lorde fasted fourty dayes