quarantine
意味
- (伝染病予防のための人・動物・船・積み荷などの)隔離
- 隔離(検疫)期間
- 隔離所,検疫所;停船港
- (一般に)強制的隔離
- 〈伝染病患者など〉を隔離(検疫)する
例文
People returning from Spain are required to self-quarantine for 14 days.
スペインから帰国する人全員に14日間の自主隔離を義務付けた。
The hospital quarantined the infected patients to avoid cross infection.
病院は院内感染を防ぐため、感染患者を隔離した。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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”). In reference to French politics, calque of French quarantaine after edicts of Louis IX. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the Roosevelt administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later Kennedy administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the missile crisis.