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See also: lazarèt
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French lazaret, from Italian lazzareto (archaic), lazzaretto, lazzeretto; see further at lazaretto.[1] Doublet of lazaretto.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˌlæzəˈɹɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: la‧zar‧et
Noun
[edit]lazaret (plural lazarets)
- Synonym of lazaretto
- (historical) A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia[1], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 10:
- But the civilising was so complete that the survivors of the original inhabitants numbered seven, of whom two were dying of consumption in the Native Compound, three confined in the Native Lazaret with leprosy, the rest, a man and a woman, living in a gunyah at the remote end of Devilfish Bay, subsisting on what food they could get from the bush and the sea and what they could buy with the pennies the man earned by doing odd jobs and the woman by prostitution.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 241:
- I woke the next morning in a lazaret, a long, high-ceilinged room where we, the sick, the injured, lay upon narrow beds.
- 1989, Carl Jung et al., translated by Richard Winston et al., Memories, Dreams, Reflections, page 108:
- The director was locked up in the same institution with his patients, and the institution was equally cut off, isolated on the outskirts of the city like an ancient lazaret with its lepers.
- (historical, also figuratively) A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.
- 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, (please specify the stanza number):
- The liver is the lazaret of bile, / But very rarely executes its function
- (nautical) A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.
- (historical) A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
Alternative forms
[edit]- lazarette (obsolete)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “lazaret, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “lazaret, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French lazaret, from Italian lazzaretto.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lazaret m or n (plural lazaretten)
- A medical facility for people suffering from leprosy or mesel, a lazaret, a medical leprosery
- A field hospital.
- Synonym: veldhospitaal
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian lazzaretto.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lazaret m (plural lazarets)
Further reading
[edit]- “lazaret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Lazareto_EntradaPrincipal.jpg/220px-Lazareto_EntradaPrincipal.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lazaret m inan (related adjective lazaretowy)
- (historical) lazaretto, lazaret, lazarette (building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to temporarily isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases)
- (historical) lazaretto, leprosarium, leprosery, leper colony (medical facility specializing in treating contagious diseases, especially leprosy)
- Synonym: leprozorium
Declension
[edit]Declension of lazaret
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | lazaret | lazarety |
genitive | lazaretu | lazaretów |
dative | lazaretowi | lazaretom |
accusative | lazaret | lazarety |
instrumental | lazaretem | lazaretami |
locative | lazarecie | lazaretach |
vocative | lazarecie | lazarety |
Further reading
[edit]- lazaret in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- lazaret in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- lazaret in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lazaret n (plural lazarete)
Declension
[edit]Declension of lazaret
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) lazaret | lazaretul | (niște) lazarete | lazaretele |
genitive/dative | (unui) lazaret | lazaretului | (unor) lazarete | lazaretelor |
vocative | lazaretule | lazaretelor |
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