quarantine

/ˈkwɒɹ.ən.taɪn/noun

A period of keeping people, animals, or plants separated from others to stop a disease from spreading.

Example sentence

“The dog spent two weeks in quarantine after arriving from overseas.”

From the Italian for forty days, the isolation period once imposed on ships arriving in Venice during plague years.

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