propaganda
TOEFL宣伝・プロパガンダ
意味
- (特定の主義・主張の)宣伝;宣伝活動
例文
Appreciate the importance of propaganda in politics.
政治における宣伝活動の重要性を認識する。
Don't swallow that slick propaganda.
そのうまい宣伝に乗るな。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From New Latin prōpāganda, short for Congregātiō dē Prōpāgandā Fidē (“a committee of cardinals established in 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions”, literally “congregation for propagating the faith”), and properly the ablative feminine gerundive of Latin prōpāgō (“propagate”). Once the word had been detached from the phrase from which it originated, it could be reinterpreted as a neuter plural gerundive, meaning "things to be propagated"; compare agenda. Modern political sense dates from World War I, not originally pejorative.