quitar
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To remove, to take away, to take down, to take off, to pull off, to pull out, to clear, to clear away, to strip, to strip away
- (transitive) to get rid of
- (transitive) To get off
- (transitive) to deprive of, to take away from uses indirect object
- (transitive) to take off, to remove, to disrobe, to doff (as clothes or accoutrements) reflexive when action is done to oneself
- (reflexive) to be removed
- (reflexive) to get rid of something belonging to oneself
- (reflexive) to quit, give up smoking etc
Etymology
Derived from Latin quitāre, quieto, quietāre, quietō, quietus.
Origin
Latin
quietus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- be quiet English
- bequiet English
- disquiet English
- nonquiet English
- quiet English
- quietage English
- quieten English
- quieter English
- quieteth English
- quietful English
- quietish English
- quietism English
- quietist English
- quietistic English
- quietless English
- quietlike English
- quietly English
- quietness English
- quietsome English
- radioquiet English
- superquiet English
- ultraquiet English
- unquiet English
- acquitare Latin
- quetus Latin
- quietare Latin
- quieto, quietāre, quietō Latin
- quietus Latin
- quitāre Latin
- quiētō Latin
- quieto Italian
- quittance French
- quitte French
- quitter French
- esmalte Spanish, Castilian
- mancha Spanish, Castilian
- miedos Spanish, Castilian
- nieve Spanish, Castilian
- pintura Spanish, Castilian
- quitaesmalte Spanish, Castilian
- quitamanchas Spanish, Castilian
- quitamiedos Spanish, Castilian
- quitanieves Spanish, Castilian
- quitapinturas Spanish, Castilian
- quitavidas Spanish, Castilian
- *kʷyeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- quitter Old French
- quoi Old French
- kvieta Esperanto
- quiet Catalan, Valencian
- quitar Galician
- quoi Middle French
- quitar Old Portuguese
- quiet Occitan
- kita Papiamentu
- kite Haitian, Haitian Creole
- quitté Louisiana Creole French