quitter

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɪ.tə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: quittor

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (burn mark, burning), from the participle stem of cuire (to cook), or from Latin coctura (cooking).

Alternative forms

Noun

quitter (uncountable)

  1. (now rare outside Jamaica) Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
    • 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Job II:
      Therfor Sathan [...] smoot Joob with a ful wickid botche fro the sole of the foot til to his top; which Joob schauyde the quytere with a schelle, and sat in the dunghil.
  2. (farriery) A fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot resulting from bruises, pricks, or neglected corns.
  3. (obsolete) Scoria of tin.

Verb

quitter (third-person singular simple present quitters, present participle quittering, simple past and past participle quittered)

  1. To suppurate; ooze with pus.

Etymology 2

From quit + -er.

Noun

quitter (plural quitters)

  1. One who quits.
    Winners never quit and quitters never win.
  2. (obsolete) A deliverer.

French

Etymology

From quitte + -er, or from Late Latin quietare (acquit, discharge, release), from Latin quiētāre, present active infinitive of quiētō (to calm).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ki.te/
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Verb

quitter

  1. (transitive, law or obsolete) to discharge somebody from an obligation
  2. (transitive, of a place) to leave, to quit
  3. (transitive, of a person) to part with somebody, to leave somebody

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading


German

Adjective

quitter

  1. inflected form of quitt

Middle French

Etymology

Old French quitter.

Verb

quitter

  1. to release from an obligation; to forgive (a debt)
  2. to liberate; to free
  3. to pardon
  4. to leave

Conjugation

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

References

  • quitter on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (quitter, supplement)

Old French

Verb

quitter

  1. to liberate; to free

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-tt, *-tts, *-ttt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

References

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