quotaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin quota pars; see Latin quota.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkwəʊtə/
• (米国発音, General American) IPA: /ˈkwoʊtə/, [ˈkwoʊɾə]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkwəʉtə/, [ˈkwəʉɾə]
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈk(w)oʈɑ/
• 韻: -əʊtə, -oʊtə

名詞

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.

同意語

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

派生語

参考

• numerus clausus

発音

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

名詞

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.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

語源 2

発音

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

形容詞

quota

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

参照

• "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)