gest
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.
NounEdit
gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)
- (obsolete) A gesture or action.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:
- They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- more Kings and Princes have written his gestes and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the gests, or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was […].
- (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mede to this entry?)
- (archaic) bearing; deportment
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto II, stanza 24:
- through his heroic grace and honorable gest
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Compare gist a resting place.
NounEdit
gest (plural gests)
- (obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Kersey to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hanmer to this entry?)
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin gestus, attested from the 14th century.[1]
NounEdit
gest m (plural gests or gestos)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “gest” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
Further readingEdit
- “gest” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “gest” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “gest” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
IcelandicEdit
Etymology 1Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
NounEdit
gest
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
gest
Middle DutchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.
NounEdit
gest m or f
InflectionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative formsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “gest (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From a conflation of Old Norse gestr and Old English ġiest; both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Germanic *gʰóstis. Doublet of host.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gest (plural gestes)
- A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
- A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accomodation.
- An unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
- A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
- (figuratively, rare) A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “gest, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
gest
- Alternative form of geste (“tale”)
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
gest
- Alternative form of geste (“tribe”)
Etymology 4Edit
VerbEdit
gest
- Alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)
Etymology 5Edit
VerbEdit
gest
- Alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)
Etymology 6Edit
NounEdit
gest
- Alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin gestus, via French geste
NounEdit
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gester, definite plural gestene)
- a gesture
ReferencesEdit
- “gest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin gestus, via French geste
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gestar, definite plural gestane)
- a gesture
ReferencesEdit
- “gest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Possibly borrowed from Old Saxon gēst or Old High German geist.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gēst m
- Alternative form of gāst
ReferencesEdit
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28
Old SaxonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.
NounEdit
gēst m
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | gēst | gēstos |
accusative | gēst | gēstos |
genitive | gēstes | gēstō |
dative | gēste | gēstum |
instrumental | — | — |
DescendantsEdit
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gest m inan
DeclensionEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
gest n (plural gesturi)
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gest c
- a gesture; a motion of the hands
- gäster med gester
- guests with gestures (title of a Swedish TV show)
- gäster med gester
- a gesture; a symbolic action, a signal
DeclensionEdit
Declension of gest | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | gest | gesten | gester | gesterna |
Genitive | gests | gestens | gesters | gesternas |
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gest
- Soft mutation of cest.
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
cest | gest | nghest | chest |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |