rhizoverbBeta
DictionaryquotationRepeated words
noun

quotation

kwoh-TAY-shuhn/kwəʊˈteɪʃn/

A passage or statement repeated from another source.

The card repeats the book’s sentence as a quotation.

An open book sentence "The sky is clear." repeated exactly on a separate quotation card with quotation marks, readable identical words.
Etymology
quotLatinto number
+ationLatinaction or result

The numbering root recalls marking passages with numbered references. From such references, quotation developed into the act of citing someone and then the actual words repeated.

In context

Philosophy Overdose4:46
why people respond favorably to certain facts and unfavorably to others is merely a question for the sociologist that's a quotation from freddie ayer
The Fact/Value Dichotomy & its Critics - Hilary Putnam (2007)

More examples

  • She checked the quotation against the original text.
  • A familiar quotation appeared above the doorway.
  • He used quotation marks around the borrowed sentence.

Forms

quotation · quotations

quote verb — repeat another source’s words

Similar words

citation
A citation identifies a source; a quotation repeats its words.
excerpt
An excerpt is a selected portion; a quotation presents selected words as someone else’s exact expression.