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)

  (file)

• (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.

   • 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.

• mini-manifesto

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:

  (file)

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

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

1. manifest

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

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ma.niˈfɛ.sto/
• 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) IPA^(key): /ma.niˈfeːs.toː/, [mänɪˈfeːs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.niˈfes.to/, [mäniˈfɛst̪o]

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

• manifēstē

manifēstō (comparative manifēstius, superlative manifēstissimē)

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.

manifēstō (present infinitive manifēstāre, perfect active manifēstāvī, supine manifēstātum); 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, 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

From Italian manifesto.

manifesto (definite accusative manifestoyu, plural manifestolar)

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

• manifesto in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu