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In French

1. Qui a la vertu ou pour but de former, d’instruire.
2. Qui sert à la formation d'un mot.

Etymology

From Old French formatif, formative, from Medieval Latin formātīvus, from Latin fōrmātus + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing’ or ‘related to doing’). Fōrmātus is the perfect passive participle of fōrmō (“to form, to shape”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “a form, shape”) (see further at that entry). By surface analysis, former +…

More French words

• formatable
• formatage
• formater
• formateur
• formation
• formation brute de capital fixe
• formation continue
• formation en ligne

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