manifesto

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmæn.ɪˈfɛs.təʊ/, /ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.təʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.toʊ/

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^[1], 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^[2], →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^[3], →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”).

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

1. (intransitive) To issue a manifesto.

• faintsome

manifesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of manifestar

• IPA^(key): /maniˈfesto/

• Audio:

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

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

1. manifest

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maniˈfɛstɔ/ [ma.niˈfɛs.t̪ɔ]
• Rhymes: -ɛstɔ
• Syllabification: ma‧ni‧fes‧to

manifesto

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

   Synonym: manifes

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

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

Borrowed from Latin manifestus.

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

1. manifest, apparent, evident, obvious

   Synonyms: evidente, noto, palese

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

• → Turkish: manifesto

manifesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of manifestare

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ma.nɪˈfɛs.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ma.niˈfɛs.t̪o]

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

• manifestē

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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.

• “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^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take a person in the act: deprehendere aliquem in manifesto scelere
    

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

Learned borrowing from Latin manifestus.

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

1. manifest; evident; patent; notorious; public

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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

manifesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of manifestar

Borrowed from Italian manifesto.

manifesto (definite accusative manifestoyu, plural manifestolar)

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

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