different between brave vs quitter

English

Etymology

From Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin (see there).

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?v, IPA^(key): /b?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Adjective

brave (comparative braver, superlative bravest)

1. Strong in the face of fear; courageous.

   Synonyms: bold, daring, doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart

   Antonyms: cowardly, fearful, mean, weak

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 21:

     Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.

   • 1987, Michael Grumley, The Last Diary:

     […] he has been so brave, giving it all a dignity.

2. (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations

     Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.

   • February 18, 1666, Samuel Pepys,, diary entry

     It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.

3. Making a fine show or display.
   • 1611, John Cooke, Greene's Tu Quoque

     For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.

   • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day

     Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Synonyms

• (courageous): See also Thesaurus:brave

Translations

Noun

brave (plural braves)

1. (dated) A Native American warrior.
2. (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
   • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence

     Hot braves like thee may fight.

3. (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.

Translations

Verb

brave (third-person singular simple present braves, present participle braving, simple past and past participle braved)

1. (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:

     For Cassius is aweary of the world;

     Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;

     Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,

     Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,

     To cast into my teeth.

   • 1670, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards:

     The ills of Love, not those of Fate, I fear,

     These I can brave, but those I cannot bear […]

   • 1773, A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, Number 53, December 2

     […] but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.

   After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
   • ca. 1590–92, William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, sc. 3 (addressed to a tailor; first use in sense of "adorn", second and third uses in sense of "confront"):

     Face not me. Thou hast braved many men; brave

     not me. I will neither be faced nor braved.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Baver

Esperanto

Etymology 1

brava +? -e

Adverb

brave

1. bravely, valiantly

Etymology 2

From Italian bravo.

Interjection

brave

1. bravo

French

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Italian bravo. Compare Spanish, Portuguese bravo. Doublet of bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?av/

Adjective

brave (plural braves)

1. brave
2. honest

Synonyms

• courageux
• bon
• honnête
• preux

Noun

brave m (plural braves)

1. hero

Related terms

Further reading

• “brave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• baver

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?v?

Adjective

brave

1. inflection of brav:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

brave

1. feminine plural of bravo

Norman

Etymology

From Late Latin *bravus.

Adjective

brave m or f

1. brave

Derived terms

• bravement (“bravely”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

brave

1. definite singular/plural of brav

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

brave

1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of br?ti (“to say”)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?.t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(?)
• Homophone: quittor

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (“burn mark, burning”), from the participle stem of cuire (“to cook”), or from Latin coctura (“cooking”).

Alternative forms

• quittor, quitture (obsolete)

Noun

quitter (uncountable)

1. (now rare outside Jamaican) Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
   • 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Job II:

     Therfor Sathan [...] smoot Joob with a ful wickid botche fro the sole of the foot til to his top; which Joob schauyde the quytere with a schelle, and sat in the dunghil.

2. (farriery) A fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot resulting from bruises, pricks, or neglected corns.
3. (obsolete) Scoria of tin.

Verb

quitter (third-person singular simple present quitters, present participle quittering, simple past and past participle quittered)

1. To suppurate; ooze with pus.

Etymology 2

From quit +? -er.

Noun

quitter (plural quitters)

1. One who quits.

2. (obsolete) A deliverer.

Derived terms

• spitters are quitters

Translations

French

Etymology

From quitte +? -er, or from Late Latin quietare (“acquit, discharge, release”), from Latin qui?t?re, present active infinitive of qui?t? (“to calm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.te/

Verb

quitter

1. (transitive, law or obsolete) to discharge somebody from an obligation
2. (transitive, of a place) to leave, to quit
3. (transitive, of a person) to part with somebody, to leave somebody

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ne pas quitter d'une semelle
• quittance

Related terms

• acquitter

Further reading

• “quitter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Adjective

quitter

1. inflection of quitt:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Middle French

Etymology

Old French quitter.

Verb

quitter

1. to release from an obligation; to forgive (a debt)
2. to liberate; to free
3. to pardon
4. to leave

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: quitter

References

• quitter on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (quitter, supplement)

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin qui?tus (“at rest”)

Verb

quitter

1. to liberate; to free

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-tt, *-tts, *-ttt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• ? English: quit
• French: quitter

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (quitter, supplement)
• quitter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.