gestar

Borrowed from Latin gestāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

gestar (first-person singular present gesto, first-person singular preterite gestí, past participle gestat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to gestate

• gestació

• “gestar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gestar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gestar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gestar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

gestar (present tense gestas, past tense gestis, future tense gestos, imperative gestez, conditional gestus)

1. to gesticulate

    Conjugation of gestar

		present		past		future
infinitive		gestar		gestir		gestor
tense		gestas		gestis		gestos
conditional		gestus
imperative		gestez
adjective active participle		gestanta		gestinta		gestonta
adverbial active participle		gestante		gestinte		gestonte
nominal active participle	singular	gestanto		gestinto		gestonto
	plural	gestanti		gestinti		gestonti

gestar m

1. indefinite plural of gest

Borrowed from Latin gestāre.

gestar (first-person singular present gesto, first-person singular preterite gestei, past participle gestado)

1. to gestate (to carry offspring in the uterus)
2. (by extension) to gestate (to develop an idea)

• gestação

• “gestar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From Latin gestāre.

• IPA^(key): /xesˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ges‧tar

gestar (first-person singular present gesto, first-person singular preterite gesté, past participle gestado)

1. to gestate
2. to develop, generate (a feeling)
3. to carry out (progeny)

• “gestar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28