kvitto

Swedish

Alternative forms

• qvitto (archaic)

Etymology

Ellipsis of kvittobrev, from Middle Low German quitebrêf, from quiten (“to liberate; to confirm a transaction”) +‎ bref (“letter”). See German quittieren (“to sign a receipt”) + Brief (“letter”) for more on the components.

Pronunciation

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Noun

kvitto n

1. a receipt (written acknowledgement of the goods purchased and the sum paid)
2. (by extension) any form of document received from a receipt printer

Declension

Declension of kvitto

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	kvitto	kvittos
	definite	kvittot	kvittots
plural	indefinite	kvitton	kvittons
	definite	kvittona	kvittonas

Derived terms

• korrigeringskvitto
• kreditkvitto
• kvittopapper
• kvittoskrivare
• pantkvitto
• returkvitto
• spelkvitto

Related terms

• kvitt
• kvitta
• kvittens
• kvittera
• kvittering

References

• “kvitto”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “kvitto”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “kvitto”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• kvitto in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)