different between attestation vs quotation

English

Etymology

attest +? -ation; from Middle French attestation, from Latin attest?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ.t?s.te?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æt??ste???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: at?tes?ta?tion

Noun

attestation (countable and uncountable, plural attestations)

1. A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.
2. A confirmation or authentication.
3. (business, finance) The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business information of a business, public agency, or other organization.
4. (linguistics, of a language, word, word form, or word meaning) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French attestation, from Latin attest?ti? (“attestation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.t?s.ta.sj??/

Noun

attestation f (plural attestations)

1. certificate
2. testimonial
3. attestation
4. statement
5. declaration
6. (law) affidavit

Further reading

• “attestation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

For Wiktionary's use of quotations, see Wiktionary:Quotations

English

Etymology

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotatio, from Latin quot?re, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwo??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

quotation (countable and uncountable, plural quotations)

1. A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but also scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.

   Synonyms: quote, citation

2. A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.

3. The act of setting a price.
4. (obsolete) A quota, a share.

Synonyms

• (price): quote

Coordinate terms

• attestation

Hyponyms

• (price): bid, ask, offer

Derived terms

Translations

References

• quotation at OneLook Dictionary Search