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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
Noun
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.
Derived terms
Translations
layout of a document
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form of presentation
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computing: file type
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Verb
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
- (change a document to fit onto different type of page): reformat
- (computing: prepare storage medium): initialise, initialize
Derived terms
Translations
create or edit the layout of a document
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change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page
computing: prepare a mass storage medium for initial use
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Catalan
Etymology
From formar.
Pronunciation
Noun
format m (plural formats)
Related terms
Participle
format (feminine formada, masculine plural formats, feminine plural formades)
- past participle of formar
Further reading
- “format”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
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Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Noun
format
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
format m (plural formats)
Related terms
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
Noun
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 of Indonesia, 2016.
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Latin
Verb
fōrmat
Norman
Etymology
Noun
format m (plural formats)
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)
- a format
References
- “format” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
format n (definite singular formatet, indefinite plural format, definite plural formata)
- 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
Noun
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
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French format, from German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus.
Pronunciation
Noun
format m inan
Declension
Declension of format
Further reading
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Romanian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
format n (plural formate)
Declension
Etymology 2
Form of the verb forma.
Participle
format
- past participle of forma
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
format
Noun
format n
Declension
Related terms
- filformat
- formatera
- formation
- formatmall
- utbytesformat
Verb
format
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