transitive verb or intransitive verbWord forms: -cited, -citing
to misquote
Derived forms
miscitation
noun
Word origin
[1585–95; mis-1 + cite]This word is first recorded in the period 1585–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: corridor, develop, keyhole, puzzle, titularmis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust