manifesto

English

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manifesto

Wikipedia

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.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• mini-manifesto

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

• faintsome

Catalan

Verb

manifesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of manifestar

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -esto
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧fes‧to

Noun

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

1. manifest

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

manifesto

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧fés‧to

Noun

manifésto (first-person possessive manifestoku, second-person possessive manifestomu, third-person possessive manifestonya)

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

   Synonym: manifes

Related terms

Further reading

• “manifesto” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma.niˈfes.toː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.niˈfes.to/,

Etymology 1

From manifestus (“apparent, palpable, manifest”) +‎ -ō.

Alternative forms

• manifestē

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
   • 397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessions 7.12.18:

     Et manifestatum est mihi quoniam bona sunt quae corrumpuntur.

     And it was made clear to me that all things are good even if they are corrupted.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

Related terms

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

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

manifesto

Wikipedia ^pt

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛstu, -ɛʃtu
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧fes‧to

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

Further reading

• “manifesto”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu