Don't Get Rid of Quitar

Take a look at the verb quitar, and "quit," "quite" and "quiet" may come to mind first. But don't be deceived by these false friends. Quitar has nothing to do with quiet (although "quiet," "quite" and quitar might be distant cousins, all possibly related to the Latin quitare), and it can mean "quit" only in a specialized usage. As our newest lesson, on the use of quitar explains, quitar usually means "to remove" or "to take away."