quarantine的词源
英文词源
- quarantine
- quarantine: [17] Quarantine denotes etymologically a period of ‘forty’ days. It goes back ultimately to Latin quadrāgintā ‘forty’, whose Italian descendant quaranta formed the basis of the noun quarantina ‘period of forty days’. English used it originally for a ‘period of forty days’ isolation’, but gradually the stipulation of the number of days faded out.
=> quarter - quarantine (n.)
- 1520s, "period of 40 days in which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's house." Earlier quarentyne (15c.), "desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days," from Latin quadraginta "forty," related to quattuor "four" (see four).
Sense of "period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation" is 1660s, from Italian quarantina giorni, literally "space of forty days," from quaranta "forty," from Latin quadraginta. So called from the Venetian custom of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days (first enforced 1377) to assure that no latent cases were aboard. The extended sense of "any period of forced isolation" is from 1670s. - quarantine (v.)
- 1804, from quarantine (n.). Related: Quarantined; quarantining.
中文词源
quarantine（隔离）：对来自疫区的船只强制采取的40天隔离制度
在14世纪中期，一场毁灭性的瘟疫在欧洲蔓延，这就是所谓的黑死病（plague）。它于1346年首先出现在黑海地区，然后沿西南方向向地中海传播，并在随后几年内蔓延至整个欧洲，毁灭了欧洲将近三分之一的人口。1347年，威尼斯启动一项措施，强制要求所有来自疫区的船只在港口外停泊40天后才允许靠岸。这段隔离期在意大利语中被称为quarantina giorni（space of forty days）。其中，quarantine源自quaranta（40），意思就是“40左右”。后来，人们就用period of quarantine表示任何期限的隔离期，而quarantine就成了“隔离”的代名词。
quarantine：['kwɒrəntiːn] n.隔离期，检疫期，隔离，检疫，封锁vt.检疫，隔离vi.实行隔离检疫
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：quarantine 词源，quarantine 含义。
来自拉丁语quadraginta,四十，来自quadr-,四，-gin,十，词源同ten,dean.现词义来自17世纪意大利威尼斯港对来自瘟疫区的商品和货物实行的四十天隔离检验以确保瘟疫不会入境。
