quitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: kwĭt, IPA^(key): /kwɪt/, [kʰw̥ɪt]
• 韻: -ɪt

語源 1

From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin 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.

形容詞

quit (not comparable)

1. (usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
   • 1990, Claude de Bèze, E. W. Hutchinson, transl., 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, University Press, page 153:

     With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.

動詞

quit (三人称単数 現在形 quits, 現在分詞 quitting, 過去形および過去分詞形 quit または quitted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, (Please provide the book title または journal name):

     Enkindle all the sparks of nature
     To quit this horrid act.

   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:

     that judge that quits each soul his hire

2. (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIV, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:

     I was but late att a Iustynge
     and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam
     and twyes smote I hym doune
     & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde
     and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:

     But if that I knewe what his name hight,
     For clatering of me I would him ſone quight;
     For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never,
     I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]

3. (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed,
     With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight?

   • 1613, John Marston; William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.2:

     Forgive me, Rogero: 'tis my fate
     To love thy friend and quit thy love with hate.

4. (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 4:9:

     Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, lines 1710–1711, page 98:

     Samſon hath quit himſelf
     Like Samſon,

5. (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
   • 1595-1609, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars

     Never worthy prince a day did quit
     With greater hazard and with more renown.

6. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
   • 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death:

     To quit you […] of this fear, […] you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?

7. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, line 510, page 36:

     God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;

8. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
9. (transitive) To leave (a place).
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”

   • 1865, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, page 33:

     He quitted the lake on the 23rd of September, and on the 4th of October arrived at Queenstown, on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, having succeded in finding a transitable route.

   • 1943 January and February, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: IV—H. A. Ivatt”, in Railway Magazine, page 32:

     At Malta the chief engineer of the ship, who always had been a good friend of mine, urged me to quit the sea; "otherwise," he said, "if you stay too long, you may, like myself, be condemned to wander about the world all your life and see your home only occasionally."

10. (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).

    After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.

11. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund または verbal noun).

    John is planning to quit smoking.

12. (transitive, computing) To close (an application).

使用する際の注意点

• The usual past tense of quit is now quit in most senses, although dictionaries may allow quitted as an alternative. Quitted is most commonly used to mean "departed", e.g., "Caesar quitted the neighborhood of Rome, and made for Campania with three legions."

Conjugation

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:quit.

派生語

参照

Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, Cambridge University Press, p. 453.

語源 2

Probably of imitative origin.

名詞

quit (複数形 quits)

1. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. [from 19th c.]

派生語

関連する語

• guitguit

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Latin

動詞

quit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of queō