quote

Meaning

Noun

1. A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
2. A quotation mark.
3. A summary of work to be done with a set price; a quotation.
4. A price set and offered (by the potential seller) for a financial security or commodity; a quotation.

Verb

1. (transitive) To repeat (the exact words of a person).
2. (transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.
3. (transitive) To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
4. (intransitive) To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
5. (archaic) To observe, to take account of.

Intj

Used in speech to indicate the start of a quotation.

Synonyms

cite

quotation

citation

quotation mark

excerpt

inverted comma

refer

estimate

extract

mention

guide

allude

recite

expression

attract

price

introduce

reference

adduce

retire

demand

relate

saying

name

report

rate

notify

paraphrase

passage

proclaim

pull

quoting

raise

ration

recall

referral

refer to

regard

remission

repeat

🔁

request

sayings

share

source

summon

take out

trade

trust

use

allude to

Translations

citer

citar

zitieren

citare

citar

Zitat

citeren

citazione

citation

citaat

citação

cotizar

citar

aanhalen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kwəʊt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: quoten

In summary

From Middle English quoten, coten (“to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references”), from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number (in sequence)”), from quot (“how many”) and related to quis (“who”). The sense developed via “to give as a reference, to cite as an authority” to “to copy out exact words” (since 1680); the business sense “to state the price of a commodity” (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of “quotation,” is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below.