incarceration.
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
Meaning & usage
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
A strangulation, as in a hernia.
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Where this word comes from
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.
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