quarentena

From Medieval Latin quarentīna (“forty days”), from Latin quadrāgintā (“forty”).

• IPA^(key): /kwaɾenˈtena/

quarentena f (usually uncountable)

1. (biblical) quarantine (desert where Christ fasted for forty days and nights)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r.

     Tras ierico al ſol poniét es la quarétena. O xṕs aẏuno. xl. dias & .xl. noches alli ſuſo en el mót o quiſo tentar el diablo a xṕs.

     Behind Jericho, toward the setting sun, is the quarantine, where Christ fasted forty days and forty nights. There, on the mountain where the Devil attempted to tempt Christ.

• quarenta

• Spanish: cuarentena

quarentena f (plural quarentenas)

1. (public health) quarantine (isolation of infected patients)

• quarentenar

quarentena

1. inflection of quarentenar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “quarentena” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.