English
subformatsubformat
From sub- + format.
Formed from sub- + format
Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’
Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’
Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’
English sub-
Latin fōrma ‘form, shape’
Latin fōrmō ‘to shape, fashion’
New Latin liber fōrmātus ‘book shaped (in a given way)’
German Format ‘format’
French format ‘format’
English format
Today it means
noun A subsidiary format.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “subformat”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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