Thing I just learned that everyone already knew: "quarantine" originates from quarantena, the Venetian language form, meaning "forty days"
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Max
Apr 21 '20, 22:03
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"used in the 14th-15th-century Venetian language and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic; it followed the trentino, or thirty-day isolation period, first imposed in 1377 in the Republic of Ragusa, Dalmatia (modern Dubrovnik in Croatia)."
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