quitte

Borrowed from French quitte. Doublet of kwijt.

• IPA^(key): /kit/

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• Rhymes: -it

quitte (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. quits, even

   Hij speelde quitte. ― He broke even.

   Nu jij een ronde hebt betaald staan we weer quitte. ― After you paid a round, we're even again.

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “quitte”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Inherited from Middle French quitte, from Old French quite (11th c.), borrowed from Latin quiētus (pronounced in Medieval Latin as quíetus > quitus). Doublet of inherited coi and the later borrowing quiet.

• IPA^(key): /kit/

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quitte (plural quittes)

1. quits
2. play quitte, play even, play without winning or losing, a draw

• acquitter
• quittance
• quitter
• quitte à
• quitte ou double

quitte

1. inflection of quitter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “quitte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

quitte

1. inflection of quitten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Inherited from Old French quite.

quitte m (feminine singular quittee, masculine plural quittes, feminine plural quittees)

1. quit (released from obligation)

• French: quitte

• quitte on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)