quoted

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quote/kwəʊt/

▶verb

• 1 repeat or copy out (a passage from a text or speech by another).

  ■ repeat a passage or statement from.

• 2 (quote someone/thing as) put forward or describe someone or something as being.

• 3 give someone (an estimated price).

  ■ (quote someone/thing at/as) name someone or something at (specified odds).

• 4 Stock Exchange give (a company) a listing on a stock exchange.

▶noun

• 1 a quotation.

• 2 (quotes) quotation marks.

– phrases
quote —— unquote informal used parenthetically to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation.

– origin ME (orig. ‘mark a book with numbers or marginal references’): from med. L. quotare, from quot ‘how many’, or from med. L. quota (see quota).