From Middle English quarentine, from Medieval Latin quarentīna ("forty days"), from Latin quadrāgintā ("forty").
From Italian quarantina ("forty days"), the period Venetians customarily kept ships from plague-ridden countries waiting off port, from quaranta, from Latin quadrāgintā.
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