different between strata vs formation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?e?t?/, /?st?æt?/, /?st???t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?, -æt?, -??t?

Etymology 1

Noun

strata

1. plural of stratum

Usage notes

Sometimes used incorrectly as singular.

Derived terms

• stratabound

Etymology 2

From strata title

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

1. (British Columbia) condominium unit, condominium building, condominium title

Etymology 3

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

1. (US, cooking) A kind of layered casserole dish in American cuisine.
   • 2014, Slow Cooking for Two (Mendocino Press)

     Egg dishes, stratas, and casserole recipes are delicious for breakfast and work well in the slow cooker.

Alternative forms

• stratta

See also

• Strata Florida

Anagrams

• Attars, Sattar, Tatars, Tatras, astart, attars

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch strata, from Latin strata. Doublet of setrat and stratum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?strata]
• Hyphenation: stra?ta

Noun

strata (first-person possessive strataku, second-person possessive stratamu, third-person possessive stratanya)

1. stratum,
   1. one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.

      Synonyms: lapisan, stratum

   2. a class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
2. higher education educational level

Affixed terms

Compounds

Related terms

Further reading

• “strata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

strata (plural stratas)

1. road

Latin

Etymology 1

From str?tus, perfect passive participle of stern? (“spread out, extend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?stra?.ta/, [?s?(t?)?ä?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?stra.ta/, [?st????t??]

Noun

str?ta f (genitive str?tae); first declension

1. a paved road

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: strada
• Neapolitan:

  Tarantino: strade

  Neapolitan: strata

• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: estrada
  • Occitan: estrada, estraia, estraa, straa
• Old Portuguese: estrada, strada
  • Galician: estrada
  • Portuguese: estrada
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: strada
    • Kabuverdianu: stráda
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: estrada
    • ? Basque: estrata
• Piedmontese: stra
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: strade
  • Romansch: strada
• Sicilian: strata
• Venetian: strada
• ? Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ?????? (?es??r??)

  • ? Arabic: ??????? (?ir??), ??????? (sir??)
• ? Middle Persian: [script needed] (sl?t' /sr?t/, “way; street”)
• ? West Germanic: *str?tu (see there for further descendants)
• ? Greek: ?????? (stráta)
  • ? Romanian: strad?

Etymology 2

Participle

str?ta

1. inflection of str?tus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

str?t?

1. ablative feminine singular of str?tus

Etymology 3

Inflected form of str?tum (“coverlet, blanket”).

Noun

str?ta

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of str?tum

References

• strata in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• strata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• strata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• strata in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *str?tu, from Latin str?ta.

Noun

str?ta f

1. street, paved road

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: strâte
  • Dutch: straat (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: sjtraot, straot

Further reading

• “str?ta”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *str?tu, from Latin str?ta.

Noun

str?ta f

1. street, paved road

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: strâte
  • German Low German: Straat, Stroot

Polish

Etymology

Deverbal of straci?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stra.ta/

Noun

strata f

1. loss

Declension

Related terms

• straci? — verb to lose, to miss

Further reading

• strata in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• strata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Sicilian

Etymology

From Late Latin str?ta (“paved road”), from Latin [via] str?ta, feminine of str?tus, perfect passive participle of stern?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ata/, /??ata/

Noun

strata f (plural strati)

1. road, way, street

English

Etymology

From Middle English formacioun, formation, borrowed from Old French formacion, from Latin f?rm?ti?, from f?rm? (“form”, verb); see form as verb.Morphologically form +? -ation

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??.?me?.??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /f?(?).?me?.??n/
• Hyphenation: for?ma?tion

Noun

formation (countable and uncountable, plural formations)

1. The act of assembling a group or structure. [from 14th c.]
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Some cloud formation was confirmed and rainfall was observed over some islands.

2. Something possessing structure or form. [from 17th c.]
3. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. [from 18th c.]
4. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. [from 18th c.]
5. (geology) A layer of rock of common origin. [from 19th c.]
6. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
7. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
8. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
9. (category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.

Related terms

• form

Translations

Further reading

• “form?ci?un, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Formation”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 464, column 1.
• formation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• formation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French formacion, borrowed from Latin f?rm?ti?, f?rm?ti?nem. Cf. also the archaic formaison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.ma.sj??/

Noun

formation f (plural formations)

1. formation, forming, development
2. education; training

3. (military) formation

Derived terms

• autoformation

Related terms

• forme

Further reading

• “formation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin formatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?rma??u?n/

Noun

formation c

1. formation

Declension

References

• formation in Svensk ordbok (SO)