quit

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

Verb

1. (transitive) To leave (a place).
2. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
3. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
4. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
5. (ambitransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
6. (ambitransitive) To stop, give up (an activity).
7. (transitive) To close (an application).
8. (archaic, transitive) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
9. (archaic, reflexive) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
10. (archaic, transitive) To carry through; to go through to the end.
11. (obsolete, transitive) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
12. (obsolete, transitive) To repay (someone) for (something).

Noun

Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

Concepts

quitter

cesser

abandonner

partir

arrêter

démissionner

finir

terminer

🔚

conclure

donner

démissioner

se casser

se barrer

mettre les voiles

interrompre

renoncer

délaisser

s’en aller

résigner

abattre

aboutir

achever

descendre

laisser

livrer

se retirer

sortir

re retirer

évacuer

quelque chose

quitte

divorcer

diviser

déterminer

résoudre

dépêcher

démission

séparer

se rendre

arreter

splitser

couper

tuer

🔪🩸👤

cesser de

déclasser

cesse

🔚

départir

dire adieu

donner sa démission

faire ses adieux

Synonymes

leave

stop

🛑

abandon

give up

resign

cease

forsake

desert

🏜️

relinquish

finish

end

🔚

renounce

depart

retire

exit

discontinue

terminate

vacate

drop out

yield

free

🆓

halt

go out

go away

alight

emerge

surrender

step down

release

lay off

foreswear

leave office

cancel

waive

forgo

abate

conclude

complete

leave off

conduct

pause

knock off

go down

arrest

abolish

give way

grant

give

abnegate

give in

Traductions

dejar

aufhören

🛑

verlaten

verlassen

abandonar

cessare

🛑

aufgeben

smettere

ophouden

abandonar

finire

αφήνω

εγκαταλείπω

sair

terminare

🔚

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kwɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: quiten

Appartenant à néerlandais: kwijten

Appartenant à allemand: quitten

Appartenant à danois: kvitte

Appartenant à suédois: qvitta

Appartenant à islandais: kvitta

In summary

From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and quietus.
Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.