aquitenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French aquiter (“to act, do”) and Medieval Latin acquitāre (“to settle a debt”), equivalent to a- +‎ quiten.

動詞

aquiten

1. To give in return; to pay or repay (a debt or fee)
   • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book II, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio clxxix, verso, column 1, line 1200:

     Therwyth al roſy hewed tho woxe ſhe / And gan to hym, and ſayd, ſo I trowe / Aquyte him wel for goddes loue (q[uo]d he) / My ſelfe to medes wol the lettre ſowe […]

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2. To redeem; to make good (a promise, obligation)
3. To repay; to requite.
4. To return; to reciprocate or reward.
5. To acquit; to free or relieve (a prisoner or accused)
6. To make amends (an offense, sin, etc.)
7. (reflexive) To absolve oneself (in a certain manner)
8. (reflexive) To act or behave (in a certain manner)

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: acquit
• Scots: acquit, acquiet

参照

• “aquī̆ten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2025-07-17.
• “quī̆ten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2025-07-17.