lazaret
See also: lazarèt
English
Alternative forms
- lazarette (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from French lazaret, from Italian lazzaretto.
Pronunciation
Noun
lazaret (plural lazarets)
- A lazaretto.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.215:
- The liver is the lazaret of bile, / But very rarely executes its function […]
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter II, p. 10, [1]
- 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.
- 1961, Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffé, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, New York: Vintage, 1989, Chapter III, p. 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.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.215:
- (nautical) A lazaretto.
Alternative forms
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French lazaret, from Italian lazaretto.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian lazzaretto.
Pronunciation
Noun
lazaret m (plural lazarets)
Further reading
- “lazaret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian lazzaretto.
Pronunciation
Noun
lazaret m inan
Declension
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 |
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