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Latin
Etymology
From gestāre + -tiō.
Noun
gestātiō f (genitive gestātiōnis); third declension
- bearing, carrying, wearing
- promenade, ride, drive (in the sense of a brief or leisurely trip)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “gestatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gestatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gestatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “gestatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers