quotation
- For Wiktionary's use of quotations, see Wiktionary:Quotations
цитат
цитат (српски, lat. citat)
Etymology
The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotatio, from Латински 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) МФА(кључ): /kwoʊˈteɪʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Риме: -eɪʃən
Noun
quotation (countable and uncountable, plural quotations)
- A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.
- Синонимs: quote, citation
- "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
- 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.
- The act of setting a price.
- (obsolete) A quota, a share.[2]
Synonyms
- (price): quote
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
fragment of a human expression
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act of naming a price; price that has been quoted
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References
- quotation at OneLook Dictionary Search
- ↑ “quotation” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2024.
- ↑ Quotation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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