quit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To stop doing something.

   I quit smoking three years ago.

2. 2
   verb

   To leave a job or position permanently.

   She quit her job to start her own business.

3. 3
   verb

   To leave a place.

   The soldiers quit the city at dawn.

From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and quietus. Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.

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