quota

English

Etymology

From Latin quota pars; see Latin quota.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəʊtə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• quota-hopping
• quota quickie
• quota refugee

 

Translations

proportional part or share; share or proportion assigned to each in a division

• Arabic: حِصَّة f (ḥiṣṣa), سَهْم (ar) m (sahm), نِسْبَة (ar) f (nisba)
• Bulgarian: квота (bg) f (kvota)
• Czech: kvóta (cs) f
• Danish: kvote
• Dutch: quotum (nl) n
• Finnish: kiintiö (fi)
• Galician: cota (gl) f
• Georgian: კვოტა (ḳvoṭa), წილი (c̣ili)
• German: Quote (de) f
• Hiligaynon: kuota
• Hungarian: kvóta (hu), korlát (hu), limit (hu), kontingens (hu), hányad (hu), részesedés (hu), szükséges számarány/​szavazatarány
• Irish: cuóta m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvote (no) m

  Nynorsk: kvote m

• Persian: سهم (fa) (sahm), سهمیه (fa) (sahmiye)
• Polish: dola (pl) f, przydział (pl) m
• Portuguese: cota (pt) f, quota (pt) f
• Romanian: cotă (ro)
• Russian: до́ля (ru) f (dólja), кво́та (ru) f (kvóta)
• Spanish: cuota (es) f
• Swedish: andel (sv) c, kvot (sv) c
• Turkish: kontenjan (tr)
• Yiddish: קוואָטע f (kvote)

prescribed number or percentage

• Arabic: حِصَّة f (ḥiṣṣa), نَصِيب مُقَرَّر m (naṣīb muqarrar), حِصَّة مُخَصَّصَة f (ḥiṣṣa muḵaṣṣaṣa)

  Egyptian Arabic: كُوتَة f (kōta)

• Bulgarian: норма (bg) f (norma)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: khò͘-tah

  Mandarin: 配額／配额 (zh) (pèi'é)

• Czech: kvóta (cs) f
• Dutch: quotum (nl) n
• Finnish: kiintiö (fi)
• German: Quote (de) f
• Hiligaynon: kuota
• Hungarian: irányszám (hu), keretszám (hu), kvóta (hu)
• Italian: quota (it) f
• Japanese: 割当 (ja) (わりあて, wariate), 割り当て (ja) (わりあて, wariate), クォータ (kwōta)
• Korean: 할당량 (haldangnyang)
• Latin: pensum n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvote (no) m

  Nynorsk: kvote m

• Persian: سهم (fa) (sahm)
• Polish: norma (pl) f
• Russian: кво́та (ru) f (kvóta), но́рма (ru) f (nórma)
• Swedish: kvot (sv) c
• Tagalog: kota (tl), kwota
• Turkish: kota (tr)
• Yiddish: קוואָטע f (kvote)

form of protectionism

• Czech: kvóta (cs) f
• Finnish: kiintiö (fi)
• French: quota (fr) m
• German: Quote (de) f
• Hiligaynon: kuota
• Hungarian: kontingens (hu), kvóta (hu)
• Italian: contingente (it) m
• Polish: kontyngent (pl) m
• Portuguese: quota (pt) f
• Russian: кво́та (ru) f (kvóta), ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije)
• Spanish: cuota de importación f, contingente (es) m
• Swedish: importkvot c, kvot (sv) c
• Yiddish: קוואָטע f (kvote)

See also

• numerus clausus

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Further reading

• “quota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chinese

Etymology

From English quota.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kou¹ taa² / kou¹ taa⁴ / kwou¹ taa² / kwou¹ taa⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kou¹ taa² / kou¹ taa⁴ / kwou¹ taa² / kwou¹ taa⁴
    • Yale: kōu tá / kōu tàh / kwōu tá / kwōu tàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kou¹ taa² / kou¹ taa⁴ / kwou¹ taa² / kwou¹ taa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kou¹ ta² / kou¹ ta⁴ / kuou¹ ta² / kuou¹ ta⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/, /kʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/, /kʷʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/, /kʷʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/

Noun

quota

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

quota

1. plural of quotum

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ta/, /kwɔ.ta/

• Audio:

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Noun

quota m (plural quotas)

1. quota

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• toqua

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

quota f (plural quote)

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

Derived terms

• quotare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

quota

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

Latin

Etymology 1

From quota pars. See quotus.

Pronunciation

• quota: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷo.ta/, [ˈkʷɔt̪ä]
• quota: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwo.ta/, [ˈkwɔːt̪ä]

Noun

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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	quota	quotae
genitive	quotae	quotārum
dative	quotae	quotīs
accusative	quotam	quotās
ablative	quotā	quotīs
vocative	quota	quotae

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• quota: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷo.ta/, [ˈkʷɔt̪ä]
• quota: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwo.ta/, [ˈkwɔːt̪ä]

Adjective

quota

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

References

• 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)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɔ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: quo‧ta

Noun

quota f (plural quotas)

1. Alternative form of cota, exclusively in the sense of the English word quota, but not for the other uses of cota meaning he quotes or armour coat
2. dues; membership fees

Spanish

Noun

quota f (plural quotas)

1. Obsolete spelling of cuota.