Quarentena
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- Mount Quarentena
Etymology
[edit]From Latin Quarentena.
Proper noun
[edit]Quarentena
- (dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation.
- 1759, translating Johannes Aegidius van Egmont van der Nijenburg & al. as Travels through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c., Vol. I, p. 329:
- We went up mount Quarantena in company with ſome eccleſiaſticks, having an Arabian for our guide. Formerly the Arabians concealed themſelves in the cavities of this mountain, and would not ſuffer the Franks to come up; but at preſent the fathers of the Holy Land pay ten piaſters per annum caphar, or paſſage-money, and thus have free acceſs to the ſummit of it. The aſcent is very toilſome, being moſtly up a rock, that without aſſiſtance it would ſcarce be practicable in ſome places.
- 1759, translating Johannes Aegidius van Egmont van der Nijenburg & al. as Travels through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c., Vol. I, p. 329:
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- mons Quarentena
Noun
[edit]Quarentena f
- Synonym of Quarantina: Mount of Temptation, Jebel Quruntul
Descendants
[edit]- English: Quarentena
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