confinement

English

Etymology

From French confinement; synchronically analyzable as confine +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfaɪnmənt/

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• Hyphenation: con‧fine‧ment
• Rhymes: -aɪnmənt

Noun

confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)

1. The act of confining or the state of being confined.
2. (dated) Lying-in, time of giving birth.

   Synonyms: labour, birthing

   • 1887, The Popular Science Monthly (volume 31, page 629)

     In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.

   • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers:

     At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.

3. lockdown

Derived terms

• confinement loaf
• expected date of confinement
• self-confinement
• solitary confinement

 

Translations

state of being confined

• Bulgarian: ограничение (bg) n (ograničenie)
• Catalan: confinament (ca) m
• Czech: zajetí (cs) n
• French: confinement (fr) m
• Galician: confinamento (gl) m
• Greek: φυλάκιση (el) f (fylákisi)
• Italian: confinamento m
• Korean: 갇힘 n (gachim), 얽매임 n (eongmaeim), 속박 (ko) n (sokbak), 구금 (ko) (gugeum), 감금 (ko) (gamgeum)
• Latin: inclūsiō f
• Macedonian: ограничу́вање n (ograničúvanje), затво́рање n (zatvóranje), заклучу́вање n (zaklučúvanje)
• Malay: pengurungan
• Maori: mauheretanga (As a prisoner), hamarurutanga
• Occitan: confinament (oc) m
• Portuguese: confinamento (pt) m
• Russian: заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije), заточение (ru) n (zatočenije), ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije)
• Spanish: confinamiento (es) m
• Tocharian B: prutkālñe

lying-in

• Bulgarian: раждане n (raždane)
• Greek: τοκετός (el) m (toketós)
• Macedonian: породу́вање n (porodúvanje)
• Malay: pantang (ms), pramurawat
• Russian: ро́ды (ru) pl (ródy)
• Yiddish: קימפּעט‎ f (kimpet)

Further reading

• “confinement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

French

Etymology

From confiner (“to confine”) +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fin.mɑ̃/

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Noun

confinement m (plural confinements)

1. confinement
2. the act of quarantining, of putting into quarantine

   Synonym: mise en quarantaine

3. quarantine
4. lockdown

   être en confinement ― to be in lockdown, under lockdown

5. containment

   enceinte de confinement ― containment building

Antonyms

• déconfinement

See also

• quarantaine
• isolement

Further reading

• “confinement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.