confine

See also: confiné

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French confiner, from confins, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  confines, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin confinium, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin confīnis.

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: kənfīnʹ, IPA^(key): /kənˈfaɪn/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnfaɪn/
  • (US) enPR: känʹfīn, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnfaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Verb

1. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

2. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

Translations

to restrict; to keep within bounds

• Albanian: ngujoj (sq)
• Bulgarian: огранича́вам (bg) (ograničávam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 局限 (zh) (júxiàn)

• Czech: poutat, omezovat (cs), tísnit
• Dutch: begrenzen (nl), inperken (nl), beperken (nl)
• Finnish: (to restrict) rajoittaa (fi), (to shut/keep in a limited space/area) rajata (fi)
• French: confiner (fr)
• German: beschränken (de)
• Greek: περιορίζω (el) (periorízo)

  Ancient: κατακλείω (katakleíō)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: korlátoz (hu)
• Japanese: 限る (かぎる, kagiru)
• Latin: compescō, inclūdō
• Maori: whakatiki, whakatina, hamaruru
• Portuguese: confinar (pt)
• Russian: ограни́чивать (ru) impf (ograníčivatʹ), ограни́чить (ru) pf (ograníčitʹ)
• Spanish: confinar (es), encorsetar (es)
• Swedish: begränsa (sv), inskränka (sv)
• Telugu: పరిమితము (te) (parimitamu), పరిమితము చేయు (parimitamu cēyu), నిర్బంధించు (te) (nirbandhiñcu)
• Vietnamese: nhốt (vi)

detain — see detain

lock up — see lock up

arrest — see arrest

imprison — see imprison

incarcerate — see incarcerate

Noun

confine (plural confines)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.

Synonyms

• (limit): border, bound, limit

Derived terms

• confineless

Translations

limit

• Bulgarian: граници (bg) (granici), предел (bg) (predel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 界限 (zh) (jièxiàn)

• Dutch: limiet (nl)
• Finnish: raja (fi)
• French: limite (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Begrenzung (de) f
• Greek: όριο (el) n (ório)
• Korean: 감금 (ko) (gamgeum)
• Portuguese: confim (pt) m
• Russian: грани́ца (ru) f (graníca), преде́л (ru) m (predél), лими́т (ru) m (limít)
• Spanish: confín (es) m, raya (es) f

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁ/
• Homophones: confinent, confines

Verb

confine

1. first-person singular present indicative of confiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of confiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of confiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of confiner
5. second-person singular imperative of confiner

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin confīnis.

Noun

confine m (plural confini)

1. border, frontier
2. boundary

Synonyms

• limite

Related terms

• confinante
• confinare
• confinario
• confino

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) cōnfīne

1. nominative neuter singular of cōnfīnis
2. accusative neuter singular of cōnfīnis
3. vocative neuter singular of cōnfīnis

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Portuguese

Verb

confine

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Verb

confine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of confinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of confinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of confinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of confinar.