# format
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt/
* (US) IPA: /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/
* Audio (US):(file)

### 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

* container format
* E-format
* file format
* formatize
* format string
* Harvard format
* large format
* letterbox format
* medium format
* microformat
* multiformat
* radio format
* subformat
* wildmat
* zoo format

#### Translations
### Verb

format (third-person singular simple present formats, present participle formatting, simple past and past participle formatted)
* To create or 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

* autoformat
* deformat
* formattable
* formatter
* formatting
* misformat
* overformat
* preformat
* unformat
* wildmat

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Etymology

From formar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [furˈmat]
* IPA: (Balearic) [forˈmat]
* IPA: (Valencia) [foɾˈmat]
* Rhymes: -at

### Noun

format m (plural formats)
* format

#### Related terms

* formatar

### Participle

format (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
### Etymology

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

### Noun

format
* format.

#### Declension
### References

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

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔʁ.ma/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

format m (plural formats)
* format

#### Related terms

* formater
* formatage

### 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

* IPA: [ˈfɔrmat̪̚]
* Hyphenation: for‧mat

### Noun

format (plural format-format)
* format.
    Synonym: templat

#### 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.

## Latin
### Verb

fōrmat
* third-person singular present active indicative of fōrmō

## Norman
### Etymology

From Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).

### Noun

format m (plural formats)
* (Jersey) format

#### 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.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin formatus.

### 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

* IPA: /ˈɸorməd/, [ˈɸormad]

### 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. 12$^c$29
    Ní ar formut frib-si as·biur-sa inso.It is not because of envy towards you that I say this.
    Synonym: ét

#### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Derived terms

* foirmtech

#### Descendants

* Irish: formad
* Scottish Gaelic: farmad

### Mutation

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

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔr.mat/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrmat
* Syllabification: for‧mat

### Noun

format m inan
* format, size
* (computing) format, file type

#### Declension
### Further reading

* format in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* format in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /forˈmat/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French format.

#### Noun

format n (plural formate)
* format
* template

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Form of the verb forma.

#### Participle

format
* past participle of forma

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

format
* indefinite neuter singular of formad

### Noun

format n
* format

#### Related terms

* filformat
* formatera
* formation
* formatmall
* utbytesformat

### Verb

format
* supine of forma

### Anagrams

* amorft