quotation

quotation

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English

A quotation of French text.

Etymology

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotatio, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote +‎ -ation.[1]

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwoʊˈteɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

quotation (countable and uncountable, plural quotations)

1. A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.

   Synonyms: quote, citation

   "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.

2. A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.

   Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.

3. The act of setting a price.
4. (obsolete) A quota, a share.[2]

Synonyms

• (price): quote

Hyponyms

• (price): bid, ask, offer

Coordinate terms

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• attestation

Derived terms

• disquotation
• indirect quotation
• logical quotation
• misquotation
• overquotation
• quasiquotation
• quotational
• quotationally
• quotation dash
• quotationist
• quotationless
• quotation mark
• quotation mark
• requotation
• RFQ
• underquotation

 

Translations

fragment of a human expression

Amharic: ጥቅሶች (ṭəḳsoč) Arabic: اِقْتِبَاس‎ m (iqtibās), اِسْتِشْهَاد‎ m (istišhād) Belarusian: цыта́та f (cytáta) Bulgarian: цита́т (bg) m (citát) Catalan: citació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 引用 (zh) (yǐnyòng), 引語／引语 (zh) (yǐnyǔ) Czech: citát (cs) m Danish: citat (da) n Dutch: citaat (nl) n Finnish: sitaatti (fi) n, lainaus (fi) French: citation (fr) f Georgian: ციტატა (ciṭaṭa) German: Zitat (de) n Greek: παράθεμα (el) n (paráthema) Hebrew: צִטּוּט‎ (he) f (tsitut), מוּבָאָה‎ f (muvah), צִיטָטָה‎ f (tsitata) Hungarian: idézet (hu), idézés (hu) Icelandic: tilvitnun (is) f Indonesian: kutipan (id) Italian: citazione (it) f Japanese: 引用 (ja) (いんよう, in'yō) Kazakh: дәйексөз (kk) (däieksöz) Korean: 인용(引用) (ko) (inyong) Macedonian: цитат m (citat) Malay: petikan (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: sitat (no) n Nynorsk: sitat n Persian: گفتاورد‎ (fa) (goftāvard) Polish: cytat (pl) m inan Portuguese: citação (pt) f Romanian: citat (ro) n Russian: цита́та (ru) f (citáta) Scottish Gaelic: às-aithris f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: цѝта̄т m, на́вод m Roman: cìtāt (sh) m, návod (sh) m Slovak: citát (sk) m Slovene: citat (sl) m Spanish: cita (es) f, citación (es) f Swedish: citat (sv) n Thai: อัญพจน์ Turkish: alıntı (tr) Ukrainian: цита́та (uk) f (cytáta) Welsh: dyfyniad (cy) m Yakut: сытаата (sıtaata)

act of naming a price; price that has been quoted

Bulgarian: котиро́вка f (kotiróvka) Catalan: pressupost (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 報價／报价 (zh) (bàojià) Czech: kótace f Danish: citation c, citering c, citering c Dutch: offerte (nl) c Finnish: tarjous (fi) French: devis (fr) m, cotation (fr) f German: Angebot (de) n, Preisangebot n Hungarian: (price quoted): árajánlat (hu), (act of naming a price): árajánlattétel, (current rate): árfolyam (hu) Indonesian: kuotasi Italian: preventivo (it) m Japanese: 見積り (ja) (みつもり, mitsumori) Korean: 견적(見積) (ko) (gyeonjeok) Polish: wycena (pl) f Russian: расце́нка (ru) f (rascénka), расце́нивание (ru) n (rascénivanije) (сто́имости) Spanish: presupuesto (es) m Swedish: offert (sv) c Tagalog: saturing Turkish: geçerli fiyat

References

• quotation at OneLook Dictionary Search

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “quotation”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. Quotation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913