quota

From Latin quota pars; see Latin quota.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəʊtə/

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• (US, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkwoʊtə/, [ˈkwoʊɾə]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəʉtə/, [ˈkwəʉɾə]
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈk(w)oːʈaː/
• Rhymes: -əʊtə, -oʊtə

quota (plural quotas)

1. A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
2. A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
   • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).

   • 2020 October 30, "Olimar's Assignment", in Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, day 3: River:

     Captain Olimar: 'We have to work harder on finding some truly valuable treasures. The sooner we hit our quota, the sooner I can get back to my wife and kids on Hocotate.'

3. (business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.

• (proportional part): allocation, allotment, apportionment, quotum

• numerus clausus

Borrowed from Latin quota pars. Doublet of cota, a semi-learned borrowing.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkwɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkwɔ.ta]

quota f (plural quotes)

1. share, portion (of a shared payment)
2. fee, dues

   La quota per ser soci és de 35 euros anuals per família. ― The fee to be a member is 35 euros a year per family.

3. (business) quota

• “quota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From English quota.

quota

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) quota (prescribed maximum amount); limit (Classifier: 個／个 c)

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quota

1. plural of quotum

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ta/, /kwɔ.ta/

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quota m (plural quotas)

1. quota

• “quota”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• toqua

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: quò‧ta

Derived from Latin quota.

quota f (plural quote)

1. share, amount, part
2. fee, instalment/installment, dues
3. height, altitude, level
4. depth
5. quota

• quotare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

quota

1. inflection of quotare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• quota in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From quota pars. See quotus.

• quota: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɔ.ta]
• quota: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɔː.t̪a]

quota f (genitive quotae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) A percentage of yield owed to the authority as a form of taxation
2. (New Latin) A quota, a proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

First-declension noun.

• quota: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɔ.ta]
• quota: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɔː.t̪a]

quota

1. inflection of quotus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
2. ablative feminine singular of quotus

• "quota", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: quo‧ta

quota f (plural quotas)

1. alternative spelling of cota (“quota”)

quota f (plural quotas)

1. obsolete spelling of cuota