a lazar house or leper colony · a lazaret, a place of quarantine
çekim: çoğul lazzaretti
eş: lebbrosario, ospedale
köken: From lazzaro (“lazar, leper”) + -etto (“-ette: forming diminutives”), from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character found in Luke 16, from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (“Eleazar”, literally “God has helped”), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible. Originally the name of a 14th-century…
köken: From Italian lazzaretto, named after Santa Maria di Nazareth or Nazarethum, a maritime quarantine station on an island of the Venetian lagoon (modern name: Lazzaretto Vecchio), with influence of lazzaro (“leper”), 15th c. Cognate with English lazaretto.
aile: lassis
Coordinate term: sjukhus (“hospital”)
Låt ingen doktare inbilla sig tokenskap, kusin; de ska’ ju lefva på sjukdomar, derföre ville väl de ha hela staden till ett lasarett.