Incarceration
[in-kahr-suh-rey-shuh n] /ɪnˌkɑr səˈreɪ ʃən/
noun
1.
the act of , or putting in prison or another enclosure:
The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
n.
early 15c., “retention of pus,” from Medieval Latin incarcerationem (nominative incarceratio), noun of action from past participle stem of incarcerare “to imprison,” from in- “in” (see in- (2)) + carcer “prison, an enclosed space,” from Proto-Italic *kar-kr(o)-, of uncertain origin.
It seems best to connect carcer with other IE words for ‘circle, round object’, such as Latin. curvus, Gr. κιρκος ‘ring’, OIc. hringr, although not all of these have a good IE etymology. The reduplication in Latin carcer could be iconic; thus, the original meaning would have been ‘enclosure’. [de Vaan]
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