Quarantine (noun/verb)
kwa-ren-teen
A state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed./ To put someone in quarantine.
Mid 17th century from Italian quarantina ‘forty days’, from quaranta ‘forty’.
Example sentences
“The quarantine is virtually worldwide”
Favonian (adj) fav-oh-nee-un Of or relating to the west wind./ Mild or favorable; propitious. 1650–60; Latin Favōniānus. See Favonius, -an. foehn (more…)
