gestatio

Latin

Etymology

From gestāre +‎ -tiō.

Noun

gestātiō f (genitive gestātiōnis); third declension

1. bearing, carrying, wearing
2. promenade, ride, drive (in the sense of a brief or leisurely trip)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gestātiō	gestātiōnēs
Genitive	gestātiōnis	gestātiōnum
Dative	gestātiōnī	gestātiōnibus
Accusative	gestātiōnem	gestātiōnēs
Ablative	gestātiōne	gestātiōnibus
Vocative	gestātiō	gestātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: gestació
• French: gestation
• Galician: xestación
• Italian: gestazione
• Portuguese: gestação
• Spanish: gestación

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