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Pronunciation / Transliteration: si-ta
"La cita fue utilizada en el ensayo."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts.
"The professor included a famous quotation in her lecture to illustrate her point." - 2
A formal statement of the current price of a security or commodity.
"The stock market quotation showed a significant rise in prices today."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from medieval Latin 'quotatio' meaning a numbering or referencing, stemming from 'quotare' (to divide, number, or quote). Entering Middle English in the 15th century initially relating to citing book chapters or references, its semantic scope shifted by the late 16th century to denote the actual words repeated from a text or speech.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Quotation" is said worldwide
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citation
Transliteration: si-ta-syon
"La citation célèbre a été utilisée dans le discours."
Zitat
Transliteration: tsi-tat
"Das Zitat wurde in der Präsentation erwähnt."
citazione
Transliteration: chi-ta-tsyo-ne
"La citazione è stata presa da un libro famoso."
cita
Transliteration: si-ta
"La cita fue utilizada en el ensayo."
citação
Transliteration: si-ta-sao
"A citação foi retirada de um autor famoso."
उद्धरण
Transliteration: ud-dha-ran
"उद्धरण को लेख में शामिल किया गया।"
引用
Transliteration: yǐn yòng
"引用在文章中被使用。"
인용
Transliteration: in-yong
"인용이 논문에 포함되었습니다."
引用
Transliteration: in'yō
"引用は論文に含まれていました。"
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