kvitten

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Low German quiten, from Latin mālum cotōnium, from Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion), from Κυδωνία (Kudōnía).

Noun

kvitten c or n

1. quince (the plant Cydonia oblonga or its fruit)

Declension

Declension of kvitten

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	kvitten	kvittens
	definite	kvitten	kvittens
plural	indefinite	kvitten	kvittens
	definite	-	-

Derived terms

• kvittenmarmelad

Descendants

• → Finnish: kvitteni

References

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