Quarantine

See also: quarantine

English

Alternative forms

• Mount Quarantine

Etymology

From Latin Quarantina.

Proper noun

Quarantine

1. (dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation
   • a. 1500, The Pilgrymage and the Wayes of Jerusalem ("Stations of Jerusalem"), HM 144, [170,%22view%22:%22thumbnails%22} fol. 80 rev.]:

     Than turned we vp in to Quarantene
     There oure lorde fasted fourty dayes