format

Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I 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.
   • G. H. Putnam

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

2. (hence) 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

• auto-format
• formatting

From formar.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /foɾˈmat/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /furˈmat/
• Rhymes: -at

format m (plural formats)

1. format

• formatar

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

1. past participle of formar

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

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

format

1. format.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.ma/

format m (plural formats)

1. format

• formater
• formatage

• “format” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

format

1. third-person singular present active indicative of formō

From Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).

format m (plural formats)

1. (Jersey) format

• formater (“to format”)

From Latin formatus

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-man-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over”) + *men- (“to think”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈformad/

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. 12c29

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

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• foirmtech

• Irish: formad

• IPA^(key): /forˈmat/

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. absolute indefinite neuter form of formad.

format n

1. format

• filformat
• formatera
• formation
• formatmall
• utbytesformat

format

1. supine of forma.