format
English
Etymology
Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).
Noun
format (plural formats)
- 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.
- G. H. Putnam
- (hence) 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.
Translations
layout of a document
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form of presentation
computing: file type
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Verb
format (third-person singular simple present formats, present participle formatting, simple past and past participle formatted)
Synonyms
- (change a document to fit onto different type of page): reformat
- (computing: prepare storage medium): initialise, initialize
Derived terms
- auto-format
- formatting
Translations
create or edit the layout of a document
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.
Related terms
Verb
format m (feminine formada, masculine plural formats, feminine plural formades)
- past participle of formar
Further reading
- “format” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Crimean Tatar
Declension
Declension of format
nominative | format |
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genitive | formatnıñ |
dative | formatqa |
accusative | formatnı |
locative | formatta |
ablative | formattan |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔʁ.ma/
Further reading
- “format” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Norman
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Old Irish
FWOTD – 23 October 2012
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *uɸor-man-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over”) + *men- (“to think”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈformad/
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ní ar formut frib-si as·biur-sa inso.
- 8th century, St. Patrick's Breastplate
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: formad
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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. |
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /forˈmat/
Declension
declension of format
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
Form of the verb forma.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Declension
Declension of format | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | format | formatet | format | formaten |
Genitive | formats | formatets | formats | formatens |
Related terms
- filformat
- formatera
- formation
- formatmall
- utbytesformat
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