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Format comes via French and German Format from New Latin liber fōrmātus ‘a shaped book’, from fōrmō ‘to shape’, from fōrma ‘form’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfōrma¹‘form, shape’
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfōrmō²‘to shape, fashion’
3. New Latinc. 1500–1900liber fōrmātus²‘book shaped (in a given way)’
4. Germanc. 1650–presentFormat²‘format’
5. Frenchc. 1600–presentformat²‘format’
6. Englishearliest quotation 1896format²

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin formo
2. ² Wiktionary, English format
3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1896, George Haven Putnam: “The older manuscripts had been written in a much…”.