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Yep - the word quarantine itself comes from the Italian "quaranta giorni" (forty days). This was the amount of time that ships arriving in Venice from infected
by gringoDan 6y ago
Yep - the word quarantine itself comes from the Italian "quaranta giorni" (forty days). This was the amount of time that ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor before landing, so as not to infect the Venetians.
- nethunters 6y agoIbn Sina (Avicenna) wrote in his medical encyclopedia published in 1025 to isolate for 40 days (Al-Arba'iniyah in Arabic) to prevent the spread of certain diseases. According to some this is where the Italian word was translated from.