format

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English

Etymology

Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/

Noun

format (plural formats)

1. The layout of a publication or document.
2. (by extension) The form of presentation of something.
3. (radio) The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.

4. (computing) A file type.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

format (third-person singular simple present formats, present participle formatting, simple past and past participle formatted)

1. To create or edit the layout of a document.
2. Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.
3. (computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.

Synonyms

• (change a document to fit onto different type of page): reformat
• (computing: prepare storage medium): initialise, initialize

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From formar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [furˈmat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [forˈmat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [foɾˈmat]
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

format m (plural formats)

1. format

Related terms

• formatar

Participle

format (feminine formada, masculine plural formats, feminine plural formades)

1. past participle of formar

Further reading

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

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From German Format, from Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).

Noun

format

1. format.

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

French

Etymology

From German Format, from Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.ma/

Noun

format m (plural formats)

1. format

Related terms

• formater
• formatage

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch formaat, from German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔrmat̪̚]
• Hyphenation: for‧mat

Noun

format (plural format-format)

1. format

   Synonym: templat

Derived terms

Further reading

• “format” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Verb

fōrmat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of fōrmō

Norman

Etymology

From Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).

Noun

format m (plural formats)

1. (Jersey) format

Derived terms

• formater (“to format”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Most likely from Italian formato (“size, dimension (on paper)”), of formare (“to form, create”), from Latin formāre (“to shape, form”), from fōrma (“form, figure, shape, appearance”) with an unknown descent, perhaps from some Etruscan *morma, connected by some with Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “shape, form, appearance”), possibly of Pre-Greek origin.

Noun

format n (definite singular formatet, indefinite plural format or formater, definite plural formata or formatene)

1. a format

References

• “format” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin formatus.

Noun

format n (definite singular formatet, indefinite plural format, definite plural formata)

1. a format

References

• “format” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *uɸor-men-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over”) + *men- (“to think”). Cognate to archaic Welsh gorfynt (“ambition, jealousy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸorməd/, [ˈɸormad]

Noun

format n

1. verbal noun of for·muinethar
2. envy, jealousy
   • 8th century, St. Patrick's Breastplate

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c29

   Synonym: ét

Inflection

Derived terms

• foirmtech

Descendants

• Irish: formad
• Scottish Gaelic: farmad

Mutation

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French format, from German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.mat/
• Rhymes: -ɔrmat
• Syllabification: for‧mat

Noun

format m inan

1. format, size
2. (computing) format, file type

Declension

Further reading

• format in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• format in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /forˈmat/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French format.

Noun

format n (plural formate)

1. format
2. template

Declension

Etymology 2

Form of the verb forma.

Participle

format

1. past participle of forma

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

format

1. indefinite neuter singular of formad

Noun

format n

1. format

Declension

Related terms

• filformat
• formatera
• formation
• formatmall
• utbytesformat

Verb

format

1. supine of forma

Anagrams

• amorft