## Meanings
1. A group of words taken from a book, speech, or person and repeated by someone else.
2. A statement of the price someone will charge for a job or product.

## Examples
- "To be or not to be" is a famous quotation from Shakespeare.
- We got a quotation for repairing the roof before deciding.

## Synonyms
- quote

## Derived Forms
- disquotation
- misquotation
- overquotation
- quasiquotation
- quotational
- quotationally
- quotationist
- quotationless
- requotation
- rfq
- underquotation

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: quotātiō
- Root: quotō

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Quotation: 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. Modern senses include a group of words taken from a book, speech, or person and repeated by someone else. and a statement of the price someone will charge for a job or product.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as disquotation, misquotation, overquotation, quasiquotation, quotational, and quotationally.

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