quittance
See also: quittancé
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English quytaunce, from Old French quitance (modern French quittance), from Latin quietantia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quittance (plural quittances)
- A release or acquittal.
- A discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
- I marvel why I answer’d not again;
But that’s all one: omittance is no quittance.
- (obsolete) Recompense; return; repayment.
- 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- Qu[een]. Ah Mortimer! now breaks the kings hate forth,
And he confesseth that he loues me not.
Mor[timer] iu[nior]. Crie quittance Madam then, & loue not him.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- […] Plutus, the god of gold,
Is but his steward: no meed but he repays
Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him
But breeds the giver a return exceeding
All use of quittance.
French edit
Etymology edit
From quitter (“to make quits”) + -ance, from quitte (“quits”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quittance f (plural quittances)
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: kwitantie
- Negerhollands: quittantie, quittansche
- → Indonesian: kuitansi
- → Russian: квита́нция (kvitáncija), квита́нція (kvitáncija)
- → Belarusian: квіта́нцыя (kvitáncyja)
- → Bulgarian: квита́нция (kvitáncija)
- → Kazakh: квитанция (kvitansiä)
- → Kyrgyz: квитанция (kvitantsiya)
- → Tatar: квитанция (kwitantsiyä)
- → Tajik: квитансия (kvitansiya)
- → Uzbek: kvitantsiya, kvitansiya
- → Turkmen: kwitansiýa
- → Ukrainian: квита́нція (kvytáncija)
- → Esperanto: kvitanco
- → Italian: quietanza
Verb edit
quittance
- inflection of quittancer:
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “quittance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.