The story
- Latin · derived fromcoctura
- Old French · derived fromcuiture
- Middle English · inherited fromquiter
- English todayquittor
From Middle English quiter, quitere, quitoure, quiture, quytur, whitour, from Old French cuiture, quiture, probably from Latin coctura. Cognate with Low German kwater, kwader (“rottenness”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.