Quarantine
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Broken down, the word “quarantine” literally means “forty days.” It comes from the Latin quadraginta, from which came the Italian derivative quarantina. We still use it today to mean an extended period of separation, almost exclusively in the context of a disease outbreak, but we’ve gotten considerably looser about the specific amount of time being referenced.