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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.
Noun
gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)
- (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
- (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
- (archaic) Bearing; deportment.
- (obsolete) A gesture or action.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val 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
gesture
- French: geste (fr) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can
- Roman: gesta (sh) f
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Etymology 2
A variant of gist (“resting-place”).
Noun
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] 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
- gests (“roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress”)
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gestus. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
gest m (plural gests or gestos)
- gesture
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Icelandic
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
gest
- indefinite accusative singular of gestur
Etymology 2
Verb
gest
- singular present indicative of getast
- second-person imperative of getast
Middle Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu.
Noun
gest m or f
- yeast
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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Descendants
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Middle English
Etymology 1
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
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Noun
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.
- 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
Noun
gest
- Alternative form of geste (“tribe”)
Etymology 4
Verb
gest
- Alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)
Etymology 5
Verb
gest
- Alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)
Etymology 6
Noun
gest
- Alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin gestus, via French geste.
Noun
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gester, definite plural gestene)
- a gesture
References
- “gest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin gestus, via French geste.
Pronunciation
Noun
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gestar, definite plural gestane)
- a gesture
References
- “gest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Old Saxon gēst or Old High German geist.
Pronunciation
Noun
gēst m
- Alternative form of gāst
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28
Old Norse
Noun
gest
- accusative/dative singular of gestr
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *gaist.
Noun
gēst m
- A soul, spirit, breath
Declension
Declension of gēst (masculine a-stem)
Descendants
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin gestus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɛst/
- Rhymes: -ɛst
- Syllabification: gest
Noun
gest m inan
- gesture (motion of the limbs or body)
- gesture (act or remark)
Declension
Further reading
- gest in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gest in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French geste.
Noun
gest n (plural gesturi)
- gesture
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin gestus (“having been carried”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gest c
- a gesture; a motion of the hands
- gäster med gester
- guests with gestures (title of a Swedish TV show)
- a gesture; a symbolic action, a signal
Declension
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Welsh
Pronunciation
Verb
gest
- Soft mutation of cest.
Mutation