Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
@_ Welt, Mundo, Monde, Mondo, World, (lat.) orbis (terrae), (esper.) mondo
Zahlen, Número, Nombre, Numero, Number, (esper.) nombroj, nombroteorio
, lat. "quadraginta"
Zahl 00040 in Alltag und Sprache

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Quarantäne (W3)

Eine vorgeschlagene Übersetzung für "Quarantäne": "Gesundheitsprobe"

Quarantine (W3)

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Venice took the lead in measures to check the spread of plague, having appointed three guardians of the public health in the first years of the Black Death (1348). The next record of preventive measures comes from Reggio in Modena in 1374. The first lazaret was founded by Venice in 1403, on a small island adjoining the city; in 1467 Genoa followed the example of Venice; and in 1476 the old leper hospital of Marseilles was converted into a plague hospital - the great lazaret of that city, perhaps the most complete of its kind, having been founded in 1526 on the island of Pomegue.
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Any forced stoppage of travel or communication on account of malignant, contagious disease, on land or by sea.

From the French "quarante" = "forty". Adding the suffix "-aine" to French numbers gives a degree of roughness to the figure, so quarantaine means about forty. Originally when a ship arriving in port was suspected of being infected with a malignant, contagious disease, its cargo and crew were obliged to forego all contact with the shore for a period of around "forty days". This term came to be known as period of "quarantine".

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In 1348 Venice was the first city to impose a quarantine. It did so to halt the epidemic of the bubonic plague.
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A term used to isolate spam e-mail messages, it is often seen in anti-spam software. Once you quarantine the suspect messages, you must then delete them.

The pig named 'pig'
May 7, 2009 @ 2:37 pm · Filed by Mark Liberman under Humor
According to the BBC News ("Quarantine for lonely Afghan pig", 5/7/2009)
Afghanistan's only known pig has been quarantined because of fears over swine flu, officials from Kabul Zoo say. […]
The director of the zoo, Aziz Gul Saqib, says the pig, whose name is Khanzir, is strong and healthy.
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