Internare

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To confine or commit someone within an institution or facility for care, detention, or observation ; to place a person under official custody or control for a period of time ; to admit an individual into a hospital or similar establishment for treatment or quarantine
2. To place into a confined environment such as a hospital, prison, or camp for medical treatment or detention purposes ; to assume responsibility for someone's care by restricting their movement ; to formally keep an individual inside a facility to prevent free exit or for protective reasons
3. To officially detain or house a person in a controlled setting like a hospital or detention center for health or security reasons ; to take charge of an individual's confinement for monitoring or treatment ; to lodge someone in an institution where movement is limited for safety or rehabilitation

Etymology: "Internare" is a Latin verb meaning to shut up or confine within a place, built from the preposition "in" ("in, into") and "ternus," a root related to the idea of "within" or "inward." Latin speakers used it for imprisoning people, but also in a more neutral sense of putting something inside an enclosure. English took the word in the nineteenth century as "intern," used of confining someone, especially during wartime, to a camp or restricted area. The modern sense of a trainee working in an office or hospital is a separate development: it came from "interne," a French word for a resident doctor living inside a hospital, and it shares the same inward-facing idea of being kept within an institution.

Synonyms: intern, confine, detain, imprison, hold

Antonyms: release, free, liberate, emancipate, discharge