confine

Etymology

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.

verb

1. (obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on.
   ‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’ 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 467
2. (transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
   1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface, He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.
2. (poetic) Confinement, imprisonment.
   She says for you to bring her a slice of cake, A bottle of the best wine, And not to forget the fair young lady That did release you from close confine. a. 1917, anonymous, “Lord Bateman” (folk song) as published in Bertrand Harris Bronson (1959) The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol. 1, p. 419