format

See also: Format, formát, and formât

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/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

format (plural formats)

1. The layout of a publication or document.
   • 1896, George Haven Putnam, Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages:

     The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work.

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.

   The radio station changed the format of its evening program.

4. (computing) A file type.

Derived terms

• E-format
• file format
• format string
• Harvard format
• large format
• medium format
• radio format
• zoo format

 

Translations

layout of a document

• Armenian: ձևաչափ (hy) (jewačʻapʻ)
• Assamese: আৰ্হি (arhi)
• Bulgarian: формат (bg) m (format)
• Catalan: format (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 格式 (zh) (géshì), 開本／开本 (zh) (kāiběn)

• Dutch: lay-out (nl) m, formaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: formato (eo), aranĝo (eo)
• Finnish: muoto (fi), formaatti (fi)
• French: format (fr) m
• German: Format (de) n
• Icelandic: lögun f, form (is) n, snið (is) n
• Ido: formato (io)
• Italian: formato (it)
• Japanese: 書式 (ja) (しょしき, shoshiki), フォーマット (ja) (fōmatto)
• Kazakh: пішім (pışım)
• Korean: 포맷 (pomaet)
• Maori: hōputu, takoto
• Norman: format m (Jersey)
• Polish: układ (pl) m, format (pl) m
• Portuguese: formato (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਖਾਕਾ (pa) (khākā) ਢਾਂਚਾ m (ḍhāñcā)
• Romanian: format (ro) n
• Russian: форма́т (ru) m (formát)
• Spanish: formato (es) m
• Swedish: format (sv) n
• Vietnamese: khổ (sách, giấy, bìa)

form of presentation

• Armenian: ձևաչափ (hy) (jewačʻapʻ)
• Catalan: format (ca)
• Czech: formát (cs) m
• Dutch: formaat (nl) n, format (nl) m, vorm (nl) f
• Finnish: esitysmuoto, muoto (fi), formaatti (fi); ohjelmaformaatti (specifically of radio or TV program)
• French: format (fr) m
• German: Struktur (de) f, Format (de) n
• Icelandic: lögun f, form (is) n, snið (is) n
• Maori: takoto, hōputu
• Portuguese: formato (pt) m
• Russian: структу́ра (ru) f (struktúra), форма́т (ru) m (formát)
• Spanish: formato (es) m

computing: file type

• Armenian: ֆորմատ (hy) (format), ձևաչափ (hy) (jewačʻapʻ)
• Bulgarian: формат (bg) m (format)
• Catalan: format (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 格式 (zh) (géshì)

• Czech: formát (cs)
• Dutch: bestandstype (nl) n, bestandsformaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: formato (eo)
• Finnish: tietomuoto, tallennusmuoto (fi), tiedostomuoto (fi), formaatti (fi)
• French: format (fr)
• German: Format (de) n
• Icelandic: forsnið n
• Italian: format (it)
• Japanese: 形式 (ja) (けいしき, keishiki), フォーマット (ja) (fōmatto)
• Kazakh: пішім (pışım)
• Maori: hōputu
• Marathi: फॉरमॅट m (phŏrmĕṭ), स्वरूप m (svarūp)
• Norman: format m (Jersey)
• Portuguese: formato (pt) m
• Romanian: format (ro) n
• Russian: форма́т (ru) m (formát)
• Spanish: formato (es)
• Swedish: format n, filformat (sv) n
• Vietnamese: định dạng (vi), dạng thức (vi), kiểu (vi)

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.

   I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• autoformat
• formatting

Translations

create or edit the layout of a document

• Bulgarian: форматирам (formatiram)
• Catalan: formatar (ca)
• Dutch: lay-outen, ontwerpen (nl)
• Finnish: muotoilla (fi)
• Hungarian: formáz (hu), megformáz (hu)
• Maori: hōputu
• Polish: formatować (pl)
• Portuguese: formatar (pt)
• Russian: формати́ровать (ru) impf (formatírovatʹ)
• Spanish: formatear (es)
• Swedish: formatera (sv)
• Ukrainian: форматува́ти impf (formatuváty), відформато́вувати impf (vidformatóvuvaty), відформатува́ти pf (vidformatuváty)
• Vietnamese: thiết kế (vi)

change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page

• Dutch: aanpassen (nl)
• Finnish: formatoida (fi)
• Hungarian: átszerkeszt (hu), átformáz
• Swedish: formatera (sv)
• Vietnamese: sắp xếp lại

computing: prepare a mass storage medium for initial use

• Bulgarian: форматирам (formatiram)
• Catalan: formatar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 格式化 (zh) (géshìhuà)

• Czech: formátovat, naformátovat
• Dutch: formatteren (nl)
• Finnish: alustaa (fi), formatoida (fi)
• German: formatieren (de)
• Greek: διαμόρφωση (el) (diamórfosi)
• Hungarian: formattál, formáz (hu), megformáz (hu)
• Icelandic: forsníða, strauja, formatta
• Japanese: 初期化する (しょきかする, shokika suru), フォーマットする (ja) (fōmatto suru)
• Maori: whakahōputu, takarite
• Polish: formatować (pl), sformatować pf
• Portuguese: formatar (pt)
• Romanian: formata
• Russian: формати́ровать (ru) impf (formatírovatʹ)
• Spanish: formatear (es)
• Swedish: formatera (sv)
• Ukrainian: форматува́ти impf (formatuváty), відформато́вувати impf (vidformatóvuvaty), відформатува́ти pf (vidformatuváty)
• Welsh: trefnu (cy)

Catalan

Etymology

From formar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [furˈmat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [forˈmat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [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

Declension of format

nominative	format
genitive	formatnıñ
dative	formatqa
accusative	formatnı
locative	formatta
ablative	formattan

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/

• Audio

  (file)

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 (first-person possessive formatku, second-person possessive formatmu, third-person possessive formatnya)

1. format.

   Synonym: templat

Derived terms

• berformat
• memformat
• pemformatan

 

• format berkas
• format internal
• format kode sumber
• format numerik
• format sirkuit
• format tanggal
• format waktu

 

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 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, present active infinitive of formō (“I 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

FWOTD – 23 October 2012

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): /ˈforməd/

Noun

format n

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

     Cech duine nos·géba cech dia co n-innithem léir i nDia, ní thairisfet demna fria gnúis, bid dítin dó ar cech neim ⁊ ḟormat, bid cóemna dó fri dianbas, bid lúrech dia anmain iarna étsecht.

     When anyone shall repeat it every day with diligent intentness on God, devils shall not dare to face him, it shall be a protection to him against every poison and envy, it shall be a defence to him against sudden death, it shall be a corslet to his soul after his death.

   • 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

     Ní ar formut frib-si as·biur-sa inso.

     It is not because of envy towards you that I say this.

   Synonym: ét

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	formatN	formatN	formatL, formata
Vocative	formatN	formatN	formatL, formata
Accusative	formatN	formatN	formatL, formata
Genitive	formaitL	format	formatN
Dative	formutL	formataib	formataib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• foirmtech

Descendants

• Irish: formad
• Scottish Gaelic: farmad

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
format	ḟormat	format pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.mat/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrmat
• Syllabification: for‧mat

Noun

format m inan

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

Declension

Declension of format

	singular	plural
nominative	format	formaty
genitive	formatu	formatów
dative	formatowi	formatom
accusative	format	formaty
instrumental	formatem	formatami
locative	formacie	formatach
vocative	formacie	formaty

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

Declension of format

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) format	formatul	(niște) formate	formatele
genitive/dative	(unui) format	formatului	(unor) formate	formatelor
vocative	formatule		formatelor

Etymology 2

Form of the verb forma.

Participle

format

1. past participle of forma

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

format

1. indefinite neuter singular of formad

Noun

format n

1. format

Declension

Declension of format
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	format	formatet	format	formaten
Genitive	formats	formatets	formats	formatens

Related terms

• filformat
• formatera
• formation
• formatmall
• utbytesformat

Verb

format

1. supine of forma

Anagrams

• amorft