quarentena

From Medieval Latin quarentīna (“forty days”), from Latin quadrāgintā (“forty”).

• IPA^(key): /kwaɾenˈtena/

quarentena f (usually uncountable)

1. (biblical) quarantine (desert where Christ fasted for forty days and nights)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r:

     Tras ierico al ſol poniẽt es la quarẽtena. O xp̃s aẏuno .xl. dias & .xl. noches alli ſuſo en el mõt o quiſo tentar el diablo a xp̃s.

     Behind Jericho, toward the setting sun, is the quarantine, where Christ fasted forty days and forty nights. There, on the mountain where the Devil attempted to tempt Christ.

• quarenta

• Spanish: cuarentena

• Hyphenation: qua‧ren‧te‧na

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). By surface analysis, quarenta (“forty”) +‎ -ena.

quarentena f (plural quarentenas)

1. (group of) forty things, usually days
2. (public health) quarantine (isolation of infected patients)

• quarentenar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

quarentena

1. inflection of quarentenar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “quarentena”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025