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gest

See also: gëṣṭ and Gest

English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.

Noun

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gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)

  1. (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
  2. (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
  3. (archaic) Bearing; deportment.
  4. (obsolete) A gesture or action.
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Etymology 2

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A variant of gist (“resting-place”).

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gest (plural gests)

  1. (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?
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  • gests (“roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress”)

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin gestus. First attested in the 14th century.[1]

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Noun

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gest m (plural gests or gestos)

  1. gesture
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References

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  1. ^ “gest”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

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Icelandic

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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gest

  1. indefinite accusative singular of gestur

Etymology 2

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Verb

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gest

  1. singular present indicative of getast
  2. second-person imperative of getast

Middle Dutch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu.

Noun

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gest m or f

  1. yeast

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Descendants

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  • Dutch: gist
  • Limburgish: ges

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From a conflation of Old Norse gestr and Old English ġiest; both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Germanic *gʰóstis. Doublet of host.

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gest (plural gestes)

  2. A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
  3. A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accommodation.
  4. An unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
  5. A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
  6. (figurative, rare) A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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gest

  1. 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.
    • 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, [...]

Etymology 3

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Noun

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gest

  1. alternative form of geste (“tribe”)

Etymology 4

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Verb

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gest

  1. alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)

Etymology 5

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Verb

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gest

  1. alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)

Etymology 6

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gest

  1. alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin gestus, via French geste.

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gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gester, definite plural gestene)

  1. a gesture

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin gestus, via French geste.

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gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gestar, definite plural gestane)

  1. a gesture

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Old Frisian

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Etymology

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Possibly borrowed from Old Saxon gēst or Old High German geist.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡeːst/, [ˈɡɛːst]

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gēst m

  1. alternative form of gāst

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  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

Old Norse

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Noun

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gest

  1. accusative/dative singular of gestr

Old Saxon

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *gaist.

Noun

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gēst m

  1. A soul, spirit, breath

Declension

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gēst (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative gēst gēstos
accusative gēst gēstos
genitive gēstes gēstō
dative gēste gēstum
instrumental — —

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Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin gestus.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɛst/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛst
  • Syllabification: gest

Noun

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gest m inan

  1. gesture (motion of the limbs or body)
  2. gesture (act or remark)

Declension

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Declension of gest
singular plural
nominative gest gesty
genitive gestu gestów
dative gestowi gestom
accusative gest gesty
instrumental gestem gestami
locative geście gestach
vocative geście gesty

Further reading

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  • gest in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gest in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French geste.

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gest n (plural gesturi)

  1. gesture

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Latin gestus (“having been carried”).

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Noun

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gest c

  1. a gesture; a motion of the hands
    gäster med gester
    guests with gestures (title of a Swedish TV show)
  2. a gesture; a symbolic action, a signal

Declension

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Declension of gest
nominative genitive
singular indefinite gest gests
definite gesten gestens
plural indefinite gester gesters
definite gesterna gesternas
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Welsh

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Verb

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gest

  1. soft mutation of cest

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cest
radical soft nasal aspirate
cest gest nghest chest

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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