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Manifesto Has Latin Roots
Manifesto is related to manifest, which occurs in English as a noun, verb, and adjective. Of these, the adjective, which means "readily perceived by the senses," is oldest, dating to the 14th century. Both manifest and manifesto derive ultimately from the Latin noun manus ("hand") and -festus, a combining form of uncertain meaning that is also found in the Latin adjective infestus ("hostile"), an ancestor of the English infest. Something that is manifest is easy to perceive or recognize, and a manifesto is a statement in which someone makes his or her intentions or views easy for people to ascertain. Perhaps the most well-known statement of this sort is the Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to outline the platform of the Communist League.
Examples of manifesto in a Sentence
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
18 June 2026
But then the evidence, including nuclear DNA and a monstrous manifesto, grew overwhelming.
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Carolyn Gusoff,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
The whole speech was really a manifesto of misrepresentations.
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Kevin Townsend,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2026
Instrumental rock music of the kind Horse Lords make—hypnotic, hyper-focused, complex—usually carries a whiff of manifesto, offering a map toward transcendence of some political, metaphysical, or pick-your-variety kind.
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Jayson Greene,
Pitchfork,
16 June 2026
The concert series has a list of rules that reads like a manifesto against the modern age.
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Daniel Scheffler,
SPIN,
15 June 2026
The book arrives on the scene six years before Wordsworth’s preface to the Lyrical Ballads (considered the first Romantic manifesto).
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Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
The exclusion, Heller said, was the result of a lengthy process that unfolded over the past year, during which Keshet Italia made several attempts to meet with the march organizers to build a relationship and contribute to drafting this year’s annual manifesto.
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Simone Somekh,
Sun Sentinel,
1 June 2026
This may be the most important development in personal branding since Tom Peters published his manifesto, The Brand Called You, in Fast Company back in 1997.
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William Arruda,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Manifesto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifesto. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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