quotation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A group of words taken from a book, speech, or person and repeated by someone else.

   "To be or not to be" is a famous quotation from Shakespeare.

2. 2
   noun

   A statement of the price someone will charge for a job or product.

   We got a quotation for repairing the roof before deciding.

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotātiō, 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.

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