🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

引用

Pronunciation / Transliteration: in'yō

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Quotation/kwəˈteɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"引用は論文に含まれていました。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts.

    "The professor included a famous quotation in her lecture to illustrate her point."
  2. 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

The word 'quotation' originates from the Latin 'quotatio', meaning 'a citing' or 'a mention'. It evolved through Middle English, where it referred to the act of quoting or citing a source, particularly in literary contexts.

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