pamphlet

Meaning

Noun

• A small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover, formerly containing literary compositions, newsletters, and newspapers, but now chiefly informational matter.
• Such a work containing political material or discussing matters of controversy.
• A brief handwritten work.

Origin

• (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-) + φῐ́λος (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-).
• from Caton (they were formerly believed to be by Cato); and Old French Esopet, Isopet from Ésope (Aesop).
• The verb is derived from the noun.