incarceration

See also: incarcération

English

Etymology

From Old French incarceration, from Medieval Latin incarceratio

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
(surgery, dated) strangulation, as in hernia.
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Derived terms

Related terms

incarcerate

Translations

act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment

Armenian: բանտարկություն (hy) (bantarkutʿyun)
Catalan: encarcerament
Chinese:
Mandarin: 下獄 (zh), 下狱 (zh) (xiàyù), 監禁 (zh), 监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn), (limited term) 有期徒刑 (zh) (yǒuqí túxíng)
Czech: věznění
Finnish: vangitseminen (fi)
French: incarcération (fr) f
German: Einkerkerung f

Hebrew: מַאֲסָר‎ (he) m (ma'asár)
Italian: incarcerazione (it)
Japanese: 投獄 (ja) (とうごく, tōgoku)
Malayalam: ബന്ധനം (ml) (bandhanaṃ), ജയില്‍ വാസം (jayil‍ vāsaṃ), ജയിലിലാക്കല്‍ (jayililākkal‍)
Portuguese: encarceramento (pt) m
Russian: лише́ние свобо́ды (ru) n (lišénije svobódy), заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije) (в тюрьму)
Spanish: encarcelación (es) f, encarcelamiento (es) m

formerly, strangulation, as in hernia

Czech: zauzlení

constriction of the hernial sac

Finnish: kurouma

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