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

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.

layout of a document

form of presentation

computing: 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.

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

From formar.

format m (plural formats)

  1. format

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

  1. past participle of formar

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

format

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

format m (plural formats)

  1. format

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

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

format (plural format-format)

  1. format.
    Synonym: templat

fōrmat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of fōrmō

From Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).

format m (plural formats)

  1. (Jersey) 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

From Latin formatus.

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

  1. a format

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈɸorməd/, [ˈɸormad]

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.
    Synonym: ét
Neuter o-stem
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:

  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Mutation of format
radical lenition nasalization
format ḟormat format
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔr.mat/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrmat
  • Syllabification: for‧mat

format m inan

  1. format, size
  2. (computing) format, file type
  • format in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • format in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French format.

format n (plural formate)

  1. format
  2. template

Form of the verb forma.

format

  1. past participle of forma

format

  1. indefinite neuter singular of formad

format n

  1. format

format

  1. supine of forma