gestar

Borrowed from Latin gestāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒəsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [d͡ʒesˈtaɾ]

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

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.

From Latin gestāre.

• IPA^(key): /xesˈtaɾ/ [xesˈt̪aɾ]
• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014