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Quarentena

Quarentena proper noun: synonym of Mount of Temptation.

Proper noun

Quarentena

  1. (dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation.
    • We went up mount Quarantena in company with ſome eccleſiaſticks, having an Arabian for our guide. Formerly the Arabians concealed themſelves in the cavities of this mountain, and would not ſuffer the Franks to come up; but at preſent the fathers of the Holy Land pay ten piaſters per annum caphar...1759, translating Johannes Aegidius van Egmont van der Nijenburg & al. as Travels through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c., Vol....

Synonyms of Quarentena

Forms of Quarentena

alternative formMount

Origin of Quarentena

From Latin Quarentena.

Questions about Quarentena

What does Quarentena mean?
Quarentena means synonym of Mount of Temptation.
What part of speech is Quarentena?
Quarentena is a proper noun.

Words near Quarentena in the dictionary

  1. quarells
  2. quarenden
  3. quarendens
  4. quarender
  5. quarenders
  6. Quarentena
  7. quarentene
  8. quarentenes
  9. quarentine
  10. quarer
  11. quaresimal

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