quiten
Catalan
Verb
quiten
- third-person plural present indicative of quitar
Galician
Verb
quiten
- inflection of quitar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French quiter, from Latin quiētō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwiːtən/
Verb
quiten
- to free (of debt, obligation etc.), to acquit
Inflection
| infinitive | base form | quiten | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| genitive | quitens | ||||||
| dative | quitene | ||||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||||
| present | past | present | past | ||||
| 1st person singular | quite | — | quite | — | |||
| 2nd person singular | quits, quites | — | quits, quites | — | |||
| 3rd person singular | quit, quitet | — | quite | — | |||
| 1st person plural | quiten | — | quiten | — | |||
| 2nd person plural | quit, quitet | — | quit, quitet | — | |||
| 3rd person plural | quiten | — | quiten | — | |||
| imperative | |||||||
| singular | quit, quite | ||||||
| plural | quit, quitet | ||||||
| present | past | ||||||
| participle | quitende | — | |||||
Descendants
- Dutch: kwijten
Further reading
- “quiten”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “quiten”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old High German quitina, kwitina, kutina, kutinna, kottana, kozzana, ultimately from Latin cotōneum (“quince”), from Ancient Greek κυδώνιον (kudṓnion), Κυδωνία (Kudōnía).
Noun
quiten f
- The quince
Descendants
Further reading
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Quiten”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
Spanish
Verb
quiten
- inflection of quitar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative