quit
English
/kwɪt/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
- (transitive) To repay (someone) for (something).
- (transitive) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
- (reflexive) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
- (transitive) To carry through; to go through to the end.
- (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
- (transitive) To leave (a place).
- (transitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- (transitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
- (transitive) To close (an application).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English quiten derived from quitter derived from Old French quitter (liberate) derived from Latin quietus root from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (rest).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷyeh₁-
Gloss
rest
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acquiescently English
- acquit English
- acquitment English
- acquittal English
- acquitter English
- banana English
- bananaquit English
- coy English
- grass English
- grassquit English
- line English
- orange English
- orangequit English
- quiesce English
- quiet English
- quitline English
- quitrent English
- quitsies English
- quittable English
- quittal English
- rage English
- ragequit English
- ragequitter English
- rent English
- acquiescens Latin
- acquiescere Latin
- acquiēscentem Latin
- acquiēscere Latin
- conquiesco Latin
- inquiētantem Latin
- inquiētus Latin
- inquiētāre Latin
- inquiētūdinem Latin
- irrequietus Latin
- irrequiētus Latin
- quetus Latin
- quiescentia Latin
- quiesco Latin
- quieto, quietāre, quietō Latin
- quietus Latin
- quiēscentem Latin
- quiēscentia Latin
- quiēscēns, quiescens Latin
- quiētor Latin
- quiētus Latin
- quiētō Latin
- quiētūdō Latin
- requiem Latin
- requiem [aeternam dōnā eīs, Domine] Latin
- requies Latin
- requietus Latin
- requiēs Latin
- tranquillitātem Latin
- quitt German
- quittieren German
- acquiescentemente Italian
- acquiescenza Italian
- acquietamento Italian
- acquietare Italian
- acquietarsi Italian
- inquietamente Italian
- inquietarsi Italian
- inquietezza Italian
- irrequietezza Italian
- irrequietudine Italian
- quietamento Italian
- quietanzare Italian
- quietanzatore Italian
- quietanzatrice Italian
- quietazione Italian
- quietezza Italian
- quietismo Italian
- quietista Italian
- quietistico Italian
- quietitudine Italian
- requiare Italian
- kwijten Dutch, Flemish
- acquiescence French
- quittance French
- ragequitter French
- *kʷyeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷyeh₁tis Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷyeh₁tos Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷyéh₁tis Proto-Indo-European
- *hwīlō Proto-Germanic
- aquī̆ten, aquiten Middle English
- quiten Middle English
- *pokojь Proto-Slavic
- quitter Old French
- quoi Old French
- quiet Catalan, Valencian
- kvitta Icelandic
- kvittun Icelandic
- gorffwys Welsh
- quiten Middle Dutch
- terwilen Middle Dutch
- quī̆t Middle High German
- quiter Middle French
- quitter Middle French
- quoi Middle French
- quiet Occitan
- quitter xno
- *pat- Proto-Brythonic
- 𐏁𐎡𐎹𐎠𐎫 Old Persian