incarceration

See also: incarcération

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.

Latin carcer

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin incarcerō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Medieval Latin incarcerātiōbor.

English incarceration

Borrowed from Medieval Latin incarcerātiō, equivalent to incarcerate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)

1. (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
   • 2020 February 7, “Isolation”, in Derrick Green (lyrics), Quadra, performed by Sepultura:

     Perpetrated over time, better walk the narrow line / Never challenge what we say / In the darkness of our mind, never thought we'd be so blind / Let the nightmare get away / Isolation cannot be / The best, the best that we can do / Build a cage full of rage, inner demons call your name / Suicide, your only friend / Extermination of ourselves, mass incarceration / Termination of ourselves, mass incarcerate / In the cage, in the cage / You will remain

   • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 183:

     […] Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.

2. (surgery, dated) A strangulation, as in a hernia.
3. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Derived terms

• decarceration
• disincarceration
• e-carceration
• incarcerative
• overincarceration
• reincarceration
• semi-incarceration

Related terms

• incarcerate

Translations

act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment

• Arabic: حَبْس (ar) m (ḥabs), سَجْن (ar) m (sajn)
• Armenian: բանտարկություն (hy) (bantarkutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: azadlıqdan məhrumetmə
• Catalan: encarcerament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 下獄 / 下狱 (zh) (xiàyù), 監禁 / 监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn), (limited term) 有期徒刑 (zh) (yǒuqí túxíng)

• Czech: věznění
• Finnish: vangitseminen (fi)
• French: incarcération (fr) f
• German: Einkerkerung f
• Greek: φυλάκιση (el) f (fylákisi)
• Hebrew: מַאֲסָר (he) m (ma'asár)
• Indonesian: hukuman penjara (id)
• Italian: incarcerazione (it)
• Japanese: 投獄 (ja) (とうごく, tōgoku)
• Malayalam: ബന്ധനം (ml) (bandhanaṁ), ജയിൽ വാസം (jayil vāsaṁ), ജയിലിലാക്കല് (jayililākkal)
• Persian: حبس (fa) (habs)
• Polish: inkarceracja (pl) f, pozbawienie wolności (pl) n
• Portuguese: encarceramento (pt) m
• Russian: лише́ние свобо́ды (ru) n (lišénije svobódy), заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije) (в тюрьму)
• Spanish: encarcelación (es) f, encarcelamiento (es) m, carcelazo (es) m
• Ukrainian: ув'язнення n (uvʺjaznennja), позба́влення во́лі n (pozbávlennja vóli)

formerly, strangulation, as in hernia

• Czech: zauzlení

constriction of the hernial sac

• Finnish: kurouma