Translation
propaganda; promotion, active spreading of a cause
Word origin
From Latin propaganda, things that must be spread, a gerundive of propagare ('to propagate'). It entered the wider languages through the Vatican's Congregatio de Propaganda Fide of 1622, a missionary office, and only picked up its bad smell in the twentieth century.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- propagare
- English cognates
- propaganda, propagate
Examples
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The old newspaper was full of propaganda.
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For the early Esperantists, propaganda simply meant teaching the language.
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The party's propaganda hides the truth.
Read this one historically or you will misread the movement's own
literature. Through the 1900s and 1930s propagandi meant
nothing more sinister than promoting Esperanto: leaflets, evening classes,
a stall at the fair. Local groups had a propaganda and were
proud of it. The word soured in every European language after the world
wars, so modern Esperanto usually says varbado or o for honest
promotion and keeps for the dishonest kind. The -and- in
the middle is not a suffix, incidentally: Esperanto has no -and-, and the
root here is the whole borrowed -.
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