Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
QUOTE
I. verb (quoted; quoting) see: who
Date: 1582
transitive verb
1. to speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment, to repeat a passage from especially in substantiation or illustration, borrow 2a , to cite in illustration ,
3. to state (the current price or bid-offer spread) for a commodity, stock, or bond, to give exact information on, to set off by quotation marks, intransitive verb to inform a hearer or reader that matter following is quoted, quoter noun
II. noun
Date: 1888
quotation , quotation mark