formatio

From fōrmō (“shape, form, fashion”) +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /foːrˈmaː.ti.oː/, [foːrˈmäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /forˈmat.t͡si.o/, [forˈmät̪ː͡s̪io]

fōrmātiō f (genitive fōrmātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of shaping, forming or fashioning.

   Synonym: fōrmātūra

2. A form, design, plan.

Third-declension noun.

• “formatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• formatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• formatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.