format

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

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

• Audio (US):

  (file)

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.

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.

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

From formar.

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [furˈmat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Northwestern) [forˈmat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [foɾˈmat]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -at

format m (plural formats)

1. format

• formatar

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

1. past participle of formar

• “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

Alternative spellings
Arabic	فورمات
Soviet Latin	format
Romanian Latin	pormat
Cyrillic	формат
Ukranian Latin	format

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

• IPA^(key): /fɐrˈmat/ or
• IPA^(key): /forˈmat/

format

1. format.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.ma/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

format m (plural formats)

1. format

• formater
• formatage

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

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

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

format (plural format-format)

1. format

   Synonym: templat

• “format”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

fōrmat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of fōrmō

From Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).

format m (plural formats)

1. (Jersey) format

• formater (“to format”)

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.

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

1. a format

• “format” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin formatus.

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

1. a format

• “format” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸoɾ.məd̪/
  • (Blasse) [ˈɸoɾ.mad̪]
  • (Griffith) [ˈɸoɾ.məd̪]

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

• foirmtech

• Irish: formad
• Scottish Gaelic: farmad

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.mat/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrmat
• Syllabification: for‧mat

format m inan

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

• “format”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “format”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

• IPA^(key): /forˈmat/

Borrowed from French format.

format n (plural formate)

1. format
2. template

Form of the verb forma.

format

1. past participle of forma

• Audio:

  (file)

format

1. indefinite neuter singular of formad

format n

1. format

• filformat
• formatera
• formation
• formatmall
• utbytesformat

format

1. supine of forma

• amorft