gestatio

Latin

Etymology

From gestāre +‎ -tiō.

Noun

gestātiō f (genitive gestātiōnis); third declension

  1. bearing, carrying, wearing
  2. promenade, ride, drive (in the sense of a brief or leisurely trip)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative gestātiō gestātiōnēs
genitive gestātiōnis gestātiōnum
dative gestātiōnī gestātiōnibus
accusative gestātiōnem gestātiōnēs
ablative gestātiōne gestātiōnibus
vocative gestātiō gestātiōnēs

Descendants

  • Catalan: gestació
  • French: gestation
  • Galician: xestación
  • Italian: gestazione
  • Portuguese: gestação
  • Spanish: gestación

References

  • gestatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "gestatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • gestatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • gestatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers