The story
- French · semantic loan frommanifestation
- Late Latin · derived frommanifestātiō
- Middle English · inherited frommanifestacion
- English todaymanifestation
From Middle English manifestacion, manyfestacion, manyfestacioun; from Late Latin manifestātiō. In the political sense, a semantic loan from French manifestation. By surface analysis, manifest + -ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.