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acquitter

Meaning

  1. to pay
  2. to acknowledge (a signal), to notify the receipt of
  3. to clear, to acquit
  4. (reflexive) to pay
  5. (reflexive) to discharge, to complete (one's duty)

Frequency

21k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/a.ki.te/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old French acquiter, from Medieval Latin acquitāre, adquietāre (“to pay a debt”), from ad- + quitare (“to set free”), from Late Latin quietāre.

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