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English
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/
( US ) IPA (key ) : /ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.toʊ/
Noun
manifesto (plural manifestos or manifestoes or manifesti )
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
public declaration
Albanian: manifest (sq) m
Arabic: بَيَان (ar) ( bayān )
Armenian: մանիֆեստ (hy) ( manifest )
Azerbaijani: fərman-hümayun , manifest , bəyannamə (az)
Belarusian: маніфе́ст m ( manifjést ) , маніфэ́ст m ( manifést )
Bengali: বয়ান (bn) ( boẏan ) , ইশতেহার ( iśtehar )
Bulgarian: манифе́ст (bg) m ( manifést ) , изявле́ние (bg) n ( izjavlénie )
Catalan: manifest (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 宣言 (zh) ( xuānyán ) , 公告 (zh) ( gōnggào ) , 告示 (zh) ( gàoshì ) , 聲明 / 声明 (zh) ( shēngmíng )
Czech: manifest (cs) m
Danish: manifest (da) n
Dutch: manifest (nl) n
Estonian: manifest (et)
Finnish: manifesti (fi) , ohjelmajulistus (fi)
French: manifeste (fr) m
Georgian: მანიფესტი ( manipesṭi )
German: Manifest (de) n
Greek: μανιφέστο (el) n ( manifésto )
Hebrew: מִנְשָׁר (he) ( minshár ) , מָניפֶסט
Hindi: घोषणापत्र m ( ghoṣṇāpatra )
Hungarian: kiáltvány (hu)
Icelandic: stefnuyfirlýsing
Indonesian: manifesto (id) , manifes (id)
Italian: manifesto (it) m
Japanese: 檄 (ja) ( げき, geki ) , 檄文 (ja) ( げきぶん, gekibun ) , マニフェスト (ja) ( manifesuto ) , 宣言 (ja) ( せんげん, sengen )
Kazakh: манифест ( manifest )
Khmer: និវេទនប័ណ្ណ ( niveitĕəʼnĕəʼban )
Korean: 선언(宣言) (ko) ( seoneon ) , 성명서(聲明書) ( seongmyeongseo ) , 공약(公約) ( gong'yak )
Kyrgyz: манифест ( manifest )
Lao: ຖະແຫຼງການ ( tha lǣng kān )
Latvian: manifests m
Lithuanian: manifestas (lt) m
Macedonian: ма́нифест m ( mánifest )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тунхаг (mn) ( tunxag )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: manifest n
Nynorsk: manifest n
Persian: مانیفست (fa) ( mânifest )
Polish: manifest (pl) m
Portuguese: manifesto (pt) m
Romanian: manifest (ro) n
Russian: манифе́ст (ru) m ( manifést )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: манѝфест m
Roman: manìfest (sh) m
Slovak: manifest m
Slovene: manifest (sl) m
Spanish: manifiesto (es) m
Swedish: manifest (sv) n
Tajik: манифест ( manifest )
Thai: แถลงการณ์ (th) ( tà-lɛ̌ɛng-gaan )
Turkish: manifesto (tr)
Ukrainian: маніфе́ст m ( manifést )
Urdu: مَنْشُور m ( manśūr )
Uzbek: manifest (uz)
Vietnamese: tuyên ngôn (vi)
Verb
manifesto (third-person singular simple present manifestos , present participle manifestoing , simple past and past participle manifestoed )
( intransitive ) To issue a manifesto.
Anagrams
Catalan
Verb
manifesto
first-person singular present indicative of manifestar
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
manifesto (accusative singular manifeston , plural manifestoj , accusative plural manifestojn )
manifest
Indonesian
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
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 )
manifest , apparent , evident , obvious
Synonyms: evidente , noto , palese
Noun
manifesto m (plural manifesti )
manifesto
poster , placard , bill , notice
Synonym: poster
( theater ) playbill , programme /program , program
Synonyms: cartellone , programma
( nautical ) manifest
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
manifesto
first-person singular present indicative of manifestare
Derived terms
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From manifestus ( “ apparent, palpable, manifest ” ) + -ō .
Adverb
manifestō (comparative manifestius , superlative manifestissimē )
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
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
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin manifestus .
Adjective
manifesto (feminine manifesta , masculine plural manifestos , feminine plural manifestas )
manifest ; evident ; patent ; notorious ; public
Derived terms
Noun
manifesto m (plural manifestos )
manifesto ; manifest
act or effect of manifesting
public declaration in which the reasons that led to the practice of certain acts that are of interest to a community are set out
( literature ) programmatic text of a literary school or literary movement
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
first-person singular present indicative of manifestar
Turkish
Etymology
From Italian manifesto .
Noun
manifesto (definite accusative manifestoyu , plural manifestolar )
manifesto (a public declaration; an open statement)
Declension
Further reading
“manifesto ”, in Turkish dictionaries , Türk Dil Kurumu