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Lazaretto

Definitions: Lazaretto

Lazaretto

Noun

1. Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy).

2. A small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lazaretto" was first used: 1549. (references)



Synonyms: Lazaretto

Synonyms: glory hole (n), lazar house (n), lazaret (n), lazarette (n), pesthouse (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Lazaretto

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Remedy

Hospital, infirmary; pesthouse, lazarhouse; lazaretto; lock hospital; maison de sante; ambulance.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Lazaretto

English words defined with "lazaretto": lazar house. (references)

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Photo Album: Lazaretto

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The Lazaretto Creek Bridge from Lazaretto Creek Park.Credit: America's Coastlines.

A view over the wetlands to the Lazaretto Creek Bridge.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Shrimpers tied up at the Lazaretto Creek Bridge.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Shrimp boats on Lazaretto Creek near Tybee Island.Credit: Fisheries.

Smyrna. General view. Lazaretto.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lazaretto

Language Translations for "lazaretto"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

spital i izoluar për leprozët (lazaret, leprosarium), karantinë (lazaret, quarantine), depo ushqimesh (larder, lazaret, pantry). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

склад (depositary, depository, depot, outlet, paddock, repository, stock-pot, stockroom, storage, store, store-house, stowage), кораб за карантиране на болни (lazaret), болница за заразноболни (lazaret). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nemocnice (hospice, hospital, infirmary, lazaret). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νοσοκομείο λοιμικών, λοιμοκαθαρτήριο (quarantine). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kórházhajó (hospital ship, lazaret), bélpoklos kórház (lazaret). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lazzaretto (lazaret, leper hospital). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

azarettolay

   

Portuguese

  

lixeira (dump), lazareto, hospital (clinic, hospital, hospital administration, hospital clinic, hospital institution, infirmary, medical institution). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лепрозорий (lazaret, leprosarium). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

lazaret (lazaret). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

leprasjukhus (lazaret, leprosarium), karantän (lazaret, quarantine). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

karantina yeri (lazaret), gemi ambarı (hold, lazaret), fakir hastanesi (lazaret). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trại phong nh cách ly (lazaret), trại hủi (lazaret, lazar-house, leper house, leprosarium), t u cách ly (lazaret). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lazaretto

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Italian900-Modern

lazareto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lazaretto

Derivations

Words beginning with "lazaretto": lazarettos. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Lazaretto" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bazartete, Bazaruto, lassavette, lazarite, Lizabette. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lazaretto

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-o-r-t-t-z"

-2 letters: lazaret.

-3 letters: aortae, aortal, areola, latter, rattle, rotate, zealot.

-4 letters: alate, alert, altar, alter, aorta, areal, artal, artel, attar, azole, azote, later, latte, lazar, lotte, oater, orate, ottar, otter, ratal, ratel, reata, rotte, talar, taler, tarot, tatar, tater, tetra, tolar, torte, total, toter, treat, zlote, zoeal.

-5 letters: aero, alae, alar, aloe, alto, area, earl, late, laze, lear, lore, lota, olea, oral, orle, rale, rate, rato, raze, real, role, rota, rote, rotl, tael, tala, tale, tare, taro, tart, tate, teal, tear, teat, tela, toea, tola, tole, tora, tore, tort, tote, tret, trot, tzar, zeal, zero, zeta, zoea.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-o-r-t-t-z"
 

+1 letter: lazarettos.

 

+3 letters: laterization.

 

+4 letters: cartelization, laterizations.

 

+5 letters: cartelizations, centralization, lateralization, literalization, neutralization, revitalization, thermalization, traditionalize.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lazaretto


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 7A 61 72 65 74 74 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01111010 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110100 01110100 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#122 &#97 &#114 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 007A 0061 0072 0065 0074 0074 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

466792678471868681

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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