quiture

Old French

Alternative forms

• cuiture

Etymology

quite, variant of cuite, feminine singular past participle of cuire +‎ -ure. May correspond to Latin coctūra (compare Romanian coptură (“pus; abscess”)).

Noun

quiture oblique singular, f (oblique plural quitures, nominative singular quiture, nominative plural quitures)

1. cooking
2. cauterization
3. quitter; pus; suppuration

Usage notes

• The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub originally listed the cooking/cauterization senses and the quitter senses as separate words, and says that "the association […] is not immediately apparent". See references below.

Descendants

• → English: quitter, quittor

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cuiture)
• cuiture on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub