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

Terms derived from incarceration

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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