Added 8 October 2026
quotation
/kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/ noun
Latin root: quotātiō Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about quotation at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.
"Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
- The act of quoting someone or something.
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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.
Origin
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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