different between quitter vs quittor

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.

English

Alternative forms

• quitter (Etymology 1)

Etymology

From Middle English quiter, quitere, quitoure, quiture, quytur, whitour, from Old French cuiture, quiture, probably from Latin coctura. Cognate with Low German kwater, kwader (“rottenness”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

quittor (plural quittors)

1. A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

References