"format" in seven languages
Meaningformat
Spanish
formato
/foɾˈmato/
masc.borrowed · Italian formato
French
format
/fɔʁma/
masc.borrowed · Italian formato
The final t is silent.
Italian
formato
/forˈmato/
masc.learned
Portuguese
formato
/fohˈmatu/
masc.borrowed · Italian formato
Romanian
format
/forˈmat/
neut.borrowed · French format
Catalan
format
/fuɾˈmat/
masc.borrowed · Italian formato, probably through French format
English
format
/ˈfɔɹmæt/
from Latin/French · French format, from Italian formato
English → ItalianformatformatoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
FORMĀTUM‘shaped (from FORMA 'shape')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A printers' word: the 'shape' of a book. It spread from Italian into French and Spanish, and on to English.
English relatives: form, formation, formal
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In a sentence
- es¿En qué formato está el archivo?
- frLe fichier est dans quel format ?
- itIn che formato è il file?
- ptEm que formato está o arquivo?
- roÎn ce format e fișierul?
- caEn quin format està l'arxiu?
- enWhat format is the file in?
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