quota

From Latin quota pars; see Latin quota.

• (US, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkwoʊtə/

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• Rhymes: -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:

     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

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɔ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From English quota.

quota

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

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quota

1. Plural form 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

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: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷo.ta/, [ˈkʷɔt̪ä]
• quota: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwo.ta/, [ˈkwɔːt̪ä]
• quotā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷo.taː/, [ˈkʷɔt̪äː]
• quotā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwo.ta/, [ˈkwɔːt̪ä]

quota

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

quotā

1. 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 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

quota f (plural quotas)

1. Obsolete spelling of cuota