propaganda

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Information, often biased or misleading, spread to promote a cause or point of view.

   The government used propaganda to win public support for the war.

Simplified etymology

Propaganda comes from the Latin title Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, the “Congregation for Propagation of the Faith,” established by Pope Gregory XV in 1622 to promote Christian missionary work. The word did not acquire its modern implications of bias and deception until the mid-19th century. Propagate, from the same Latin source, had entered English in the 16th century.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- Latin prōpāgō Latin prōpāgandus New Latin prōpāgandader. English propaganda 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”)…

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