gest
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɛst/
- Homophone: jest
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.
Noun edit
gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)
- (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Who faire them quites, as him beseemed best,
And goodly gan discourse of many a noble gest.
- (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
- a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
- And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified
- a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
- (archaic) Bearing; deportment.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:
- through his heroic grace and honorable gest
- (obsolete) A gesture or action.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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:
- 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 […].
Translations edit
Etymology 2 edit
A variant of gist (“resting-place”).
Noun edit
gest (plural gests)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of gist (“a stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest”)
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- […] Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture / The borrow of a Weeke. When at Bohemia / You take my Lord, Ile giue him my Commission, / To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest / Prefix'd for's parting: yet (good-deed) Leontes, / I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind / What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?
Derived terms edit
- gests (“roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress”)
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin gestus. First attested in the 14th century.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gest m (plural gests or gestos)
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ “gest”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading edit
- “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.
Icelandic edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
gest
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
gest
Middle Dutch edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu.
Noun edit
gest m or f
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “gest (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From a conflation of Old Norse gestr and Old English ġiest; both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Germanic *gʰóstis. Doublet of host.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gest (plural gestes)
- A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
- A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accommodation.
- An unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
- A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
- (figurative, rare) A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “gest, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
gest
- Alternative form of geste (“tale”)
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1126-1127:
- In olde Romayn gestes may men finde
Maurices lyf; I bere it noght in minde.- In the old Roman histories may men find
Maurice's life; I bear it not in mind.
- In the old Roman histories may men find
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 209-211:
- [...] Or elles it was the Grekes hors Synon,
That broghte Troye to destruccion,
As men may in thise olde gestes rede, [...]- [...] Or else it was Sinon the Greek's horse,
That brought Troy to destruction,
As men in these old romances read, [...]
- [...] Or else it was Sinon the Greek's horse,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1126-1127:
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
gest
- Alternative form of geste (“tribe”)
Etymology 4 edit
Verb edit
gest
- Alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)
Etymology 5 edit
Verb edit
gest
- Alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)
Etymology 6 edit
Noun edit
gest
- Alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin gestus, via French geste.
Noun edit
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gester, definite plural gestene)
- a gesture
References edit
- “gest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin gestus, via French geste.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gestar, definite plural gestane)
- a gesture
References edit
- “gest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian edit
Etymology edit
Possibly borrowed from Old Saxon gēst or Old High German geist.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gēst m
- Alternative form of gāst
References edit
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28
Old Norse edit
Noun edit
gest
Old Saxon edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *gaist.
Noun edit
gēst m
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | gēst | gēstos |
accusative | gēst | gēstos |
genitive | gēstes | gēstō |
dative | gēste | gēstum |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin gestus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gest m inan
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
gest n (plural gesturi)
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin gestus (“having been carried”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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
Declension edit
Declension of gest | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | gest | gesten | gester | gesterna |
Genitive | gests | gestens | gesters | gesternas |
Related terms edit
References edit
- gest in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- gest in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- gest in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams edit
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
gest
- Soft mutation of cest.
Mutation edit
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. |