format
English edit
Etymology edit
Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
format (plural formats)
- 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.
- (by extension) The form of presentation of something.
- (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.
- (computing) A file type.
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Verb edit
format (third-person singular simple present formats, present participle formatting, simple past and past participle formatted)
- To create or edit the layout of a document.
- Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.
- (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 edit
- (change a document to fit onto different type of page): reformat
- (computing: prepare storage medium): initialise, initialize
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
From formar.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [furˈmat]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [forˈmat]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [foɾˈmat]
- Rhymes: -at
Noun edit
format m (plural formats)
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Participle edit
format (feminine formada, masculine plural formats, feminine plural formades)
- past participle of formar
Further reading edit
- “format” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Crimean Tatar edit
Etymology edit
From German Format, from Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).
Noun edit
format
Declension edit
nominative | format |
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genitive | formatnıñ |
dative | formatqa |
accusative | formatnı |
locative | formatta |
ablative | formattan |
References edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From German Format, from Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
format m (plural formats)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “format”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch formaat, from German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
format (first-person possessive formatku, second-person possessive formatmu, third-person possessive formatnya)
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Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Verb edit
fōrmat
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).
Noun edit
format m (plural formats)
Derived terms edit
- formater (“to format”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
format n (definite singular formatet, indefinite plural format or formater, definite plural formata or formatene)
- a format
References edit
- “format” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
format n (definite singular formatet, indefinite plural format, definite plural formata)
- a format
References edit
- “format” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *uɸor-men-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over”) + *men- (“to think”). Cognate to archaic Welsh gorfynt (“ambition, jealousy”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
format n
- verbal noun of for·muinethar
- 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. 12c29
- Ní ar formut frib-si as·biur-sa inso.
- It is not because of envy towards you that I say this.
- Synonym: ét
- 8th century, St. Patrick's Breastplate
Inflection edit
Neuter o-stem | |||
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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:
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Mutation edit
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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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French format, from German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
format m inan
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Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
format n (plural formate)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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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 edit
Form of the verb forma.
Participle edit
format
- past participle of forma
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adjective edit
format
Noun edit
format n
Declension edit
Declension of format | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | format | formatet | format | formaten |
Genitive | formats | formatets | formats | formatens |
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Verb edit
format