manifesto

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See also: manifestó and manifestò

English

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Etymology

Since the mid 17th century, from Italian manifesto, from manifestare, from Latin manifestō (to make public). Doublet of manifest.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌmæn.ɪˈfɛs.təʊ/, /ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.təʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.toʊ/

Noun

manifesto (plural manifestos or manifestoes or manifesti)

  1. A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party.
    the Communist Manifesto
    A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs.
    • 1949, D. S. Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Book Two, Chapter 6, pp. 494-5:
      During the worst days of Bolshevík tyranny, when book publishing had become impossible, the imaginists were a living reminder of undying freedom; they were the only independent group that were not afraid to make themselves noticed by the authorities, and they were wonderfully skilled in getting their slender little collections and manifestoes printed by fair means or foul.
    • 2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency.
    • 2023 November 20, Nitish Pahwa, “What the Heck Just Happened at OpenAI??”, in Slate, →ISSN:
      Beginning in summer 2022, such posters shared manifestos of an “e/acc” ideology squarely opposed to A.I. fearmongerers like the effective altruists and their fellow “decels” (aka “decelerationists”).

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

manifesto (third-person singular simple present manifestos, present participle manifestoing, simple past and past participle manifestoed)

  1. (intransitive) To issue a manifesto.

Anagrams

Catalan

Verb

manifesto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of manifestar

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Noun

manifesto (accusative singular manifeston, plural manifestoj, accusative plural manifestojn)

  1. manifest

Indonesian

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Etymology

Borrowed from English manifesto, from Italian manifesto, from Latin manifestō (to make public). Doublet of manifes.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.niˈfɛs.tɔ/
  • Rhymes: -tɔ
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧fes‧to

Noun

manifesto

  1. manifesto (a public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party)
    Synonym: manifes

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.niˈfɛ.sto/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsto
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧fè‧sto

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin manifestus.

Adjective

manifesto (feminine manifesta, masculine plural manifesti, feminine plural manifeste)

  1. manifest, apparent, evident, obvious
    Synonyms: evidente, noto, palese

Noun

manifesto m (plural manifesti)

  1. manifesto
  2. poster, placard, bill, notice
    Synonym: poster
  3. (theater) playbill, programme/program, program
    Synonyms: cartellone, programma
  4. (nautical) manifest
Descendants
  • Turkish: manifesto

Etymology 2

Verb

manifesto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of manifestare
Derived terms

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From manifestus (apparent, palpable, manifest) +‎ .

Alternative forms

Adverb

manifestō (comparative manifestius, superlative manifestissimē)

  1. manifestly, openly, clearly
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.16:
      quid struat his coeptis, quem, si fortuna sequatur, / euentum pugnae cupiat, manifestius ipsi / quam Turno regi aut regi apparere Latino.

Etymology 2

Verb

manifestō (present infinitive manifestāre, perfect active manifestāvī, supine manifestātum); first conjugation

  1. to exhibit, make public, show clearly
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  • manifesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • manifesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • manifesto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to take a person in the act: deprehendere aliquem in manifesto scelere

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin manifestus.

Adjective

manifesto (feminine manifesta, masculine plural manifestos, feminine plural manifestas)

  1. manifest; evident; patent; notorious; public
Derived terms

Noun

manifesto m (plural manifestos)

  1. manifesto; manifest
    1. act or effect of manifesting
    2. public declaration in which the reasons that led to the practice of certain acts that are of interest to a community are set out
    3. (literature) programmatic text of a literary school or literary movement
    4. list presented in a public office, due to legal obligation, of agricultural or industrial production, of the existence of goods to be sold, etc.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manifesto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of manifestar

Turkish

Etymology

From Italian manifesto.

Noun

manifesto (definite accusative manifestoyu, plural manifestolar)

  1. manifesto (a public declaration; an open statement)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative manifesto
Definite accusative manifestoyu
Singular Plural
Nominative manifesto manifestolar
Definite accusative manifestoyu manifestoları
Dative manifestoya manifestolara
Locative manifestoda manifestolarda
Ablative manifestodan manifestolardan
Genitive manifestonun manifestoların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular manifestom manifestolarım
2nd singular manifeston manifestoların
3rd singular manifestosu manifestoları
1st plural manifestomuz manifestolarımız
2nd plural manifestonuz manifestolarınız
3rd plural manifestoları manifestoları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular manifestomu manifestolarımı
2nd singular manifestonu manifestolarını
3rd singular manifestosunu manifestolarını
1st plural manifestomuzu manifestolarımızı
2nd plural manifestonuzu manifestolarınızı
3rd plural manifestolarını manifestolarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular manifestoma manifestolarıma
2nd singular manifestona manifestolarına
3rd singular manifestosuna manifestolarına
1st plural manifestomuza manifestolarımıza
2nd plural manifestonuza manifestolarınıza
3rd plural manifestolarına manifestolarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular manifestomda manifestolarımda
2nd singular manifestonda manifestolarında
3rd singular manifestosunda manifestolarında
1st plural manifestomuzda manifestolarımızda
2nd plural manifestonuzda manifestolarınızda
3rd plural manifestolarında manifestolarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular manifestomdan manifestolarımdan
2nd singular manifestondan manifestolarından
3rd singular manifestosundan manifestolarından
1st plural manifestomuzdan manifestolarımızdan
2nd plural manifestonuzdan manifestolarınızdan
3rd plural manifestolarından manifestolarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular manifestomun manifestolarımın
2nd singular manifestonun manifestolarının
3rd singular manifestosunun manifestolarının
1st plural manifestomuzun manifestolarımızın
2nd plural manifestonuzun manifestolarınızın
3rd plural manifestolarının manifestolarının

Further reading

  • manifesto”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu