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lazaretto

 
Dictionary: laz·a·ret·to   (lăz'ə-rĕt'ō) pronunciation
also laz·a·ret or laz·a·rette (-rĕt')
n., pl., -tos, also -rets or -rettes.
  1. A hospital treating contagious diseases.
  2. A building or ship used as a quarantine station.
  3. often lazaret Nautical. A storage space between the decks of a ship.

[Italian lazzaretto : blend of lazzaro, lazar (from Late Latin Lazarus, Lazarus; see lazar) and dialectal Nazareto, popular name for a hospital maintained in Venice by the Church of Santa Maria di Nazaret.]


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Originally a lazar-house where lepers were confined, but later any hospital for contagious diseases.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
  Synonyms: lazaretto, lazarette, lazar house, pesthouse


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Principal entrance to the lazaretto on Mahon

A lazaretto or lazaret is a quarantine station for maritime travellers. Lazarets can be ships permanently at anchor, isolated islands, or mainland buildings. Until 1908, lazarets were also used for disinfecting postal items, usually by fumigation.[1] A leper colony administered by a Christian religious order was often called a lazar house, after the parable of Lazarus the Beggar.

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Lazarettos throughout history

The Vanvitelli's Lazzaretto

The first lazaret was established by Venice in 1403 on Santa Maria di Nazareth (also called "Nazaretum" or "Lazaretum", today "Lazzaretto Vecchio"), an island in the Venetian Lagoon .45°24′22″N 12°21′36″E / 45.406°N 12.36°E / 45.406; 12.36[2][3][4] Additionally there is Lazzaretto Nuovo, also in the lagoon.

Pope Clement XII erected a Lazaretto at the south end of the Ancona harbor. Fidra,[5] an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth off eastern Scotland, has the ruins of an old chapel, or lazaretto for the sick, which was dedicated to on it St. Nicholas.[5]

Lazaretto Island (formerly known as Aghios Dimitrios) is located two nautical miles northeast of Corfu 39°38′28″N 19°55′26″E / 39.641°N 19.924°E / 39.641; 19.924. The island has an area of 17.5 acres (71,000 m2) and is administered by the Greek National Tourist Organization. During World War II, the Axis Occupation of Greece established a concentration camp there for the prisoners of the Greek National Resistance movement. There remains today the two-storied building that served as the Headquarters of the Italian army, a small church, and the wall against which those condemned to death were shot.[6][7]

In the early 16th century, when Corfu was under Venetian rule, a monastery was established on the islet. Later that century, the island was renamed Lazaretto, after the leprosarium that was set up there. In 1798, when the French ruled Corfu, the Russo-Turkish fleet took over the islet and ran it as a military hospital. In 1814, during the British occupation, the leprosarium was renovated and went into operation again. After the Ionian Islands were united with Greece (1864), the leprosarium only operated when needed.[6]

Lazaretto Islet survives on Ithaca and another on Zakynthos. As of 2002, one of the few remaining lazarets in Europe is the one in Dubrovnik.[8]

In the United States, the Philadelphia Lazaretto was the first edifice of its kind in the country.[9]

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Translations: Lazaret
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - storesrum, hospital for spedalske, karantæneskib

Français (French)
n. - lazaret

Deutsch (German)
n. - Lazarett

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λεπροκομείο

Italiano (Italian)
lazzaretto

Português (Portuguese)
n. - leprosário (m) (Med.)

Русский (Russian)
лепрозорий, карантинное судно

Español (Spanish)
n. - lazareto

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - spetälskesjukhus, fattigsjukhus, karantänsfartyg, karantänsanstalt, (sjö.) proviantrum

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
传染病院, 检疫船

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 傳染病院, 檢疫船

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 격리 병원, 전염병 병원, 검역소, 식료품 보관소

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 避病院, 検疫所

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בית-חולים למצורעים, בנין או ספינה להסגר (בידוד), אחורי החלק התת-סיפוני של אוניה המשמש כמחסן‬


 
 
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