What does the word quarantine mean?

Answer 1

Since tuberculosis is so contagious, it is often necessary to quarantine the people who have it in order to keep it from spreading.
He is sick with the plague so he'll have to go into quarantine.

Answer 2

Quarantine is a period of isolation or restricted movement imposed to prevent the spread of disease. It is a measure taken to separate and restrict the movement of individuals who may have been exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.

Answer 3

'Quarantine means forty (40) days of separation. It is completed in order to prevent the spread of disease. It is thought that if a person/animal had been in contact with a communicable/contagious disease, then signs and symptons would appear within that period. Hence people/ amimals were isolated.

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.

Answer 4

keep separate