quitte

See also: Quitte and quitté

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French quitte, borrowed from Latin quiētus (pronounced in Medieval Latin as quitus). Doublet of coi, which was inherited, as well as quiet, a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kit/

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Adjective

quitte (plural quittes)

1. quits
2. play quitte, play even, play without winning or losing, a draw

Derived terms

• acquitter
• quittance
• quitter
• quitte à
• quitte ou double

Descendants

• Portuguese: quite

Verb

quitte

1. inflection of quitter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “quitte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quiētus (pronounced in Medieval Latin as quitus). Compare the inherited coi.

Adjective

quitte m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quitte)

1. free; liberated

Descendants

• → English: quit, quite
• French: quitte

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (quitte, supplement)
• quite on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub