QUARANTINE meaning : 1. a specific period of time in which a person or animal that has a disease, or may have one, must…. Learn more. QUARANTINE meaning : 1 : the period of time during which a person or animal that has a disease or that might have a disease is kept away from others to prevent the disease from spreading; 2 : the situation of being kept away from others to prevent a disease from spreading Quarantine is a period of isolation or detention to prevent the spread of disease, usually 40 days. It can also mean a political or social isolation, or a system of measures at ports or borders. The word quarantine comes from quarantena or quarantaine, meaning "forty days", used in the Venetian language in the 14th and 15th centuries and also in France. The word is designated in the period during which all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague. [1] The quarantena followed the trentino, or "thirty-day isolation" period, first imposed in 1377 in the Republic of Ragusa, Dalmatia (modern Dubrovnik in Croatia). [2][3 ...
